<p>alongfortheride: awww…(but, looking back, with both kids now gone to college, we were just along for the ride, too).</p>
<p>Alumother: Not “mother of Alu” but “Alumna mother”. When I found this board I was very aware that my attitude towards the process was colored by being a P-ton alumna. And I didn’t know I would stick around and have to live with the name…</p>
<p>Blue MINI - I drive one. 
Of course true MINI folks would specify it’s an Indi Blue. ;)</p>
<p>blumini – i want your car.</p>
<p>BTW, Elvis Costello rocks.</p>
<p>yessss he does</p>
<p>There was a thread on this awhile back, but here goes again. Ever the proud and involved mama, I chose the school colors that are the same for both of my kids’ schools. S’s recent alma mater is well-known by these colors, and my frosh D’s LAC shares them. Just one of those omens that led us to believe she’d get into her #1 choice.</p>
<p>thisyearsgirl - I lived down in DC for a few months last year and saw quite a few…maybe you could borrow one? 
Thanks I love my MINI, too.</p>
<p>OK, back to etymologies.</p>
<p>blumini – i wish, but dc traffic regulations aren’t kind to me, and i’m not getting my permit until november. there’s one down the street (also indi blue) that i’ve been eyeing enviously, but no such luck.</p>
<p>/last off-topic post; i swear!</p>
<p>I had joined another board where I wanted to catch people off-guard and not have them make their mind up about me until I’d posted a while. So I picked a name that implied something sort of country and simple and old-fashioned, which is the antithesis of someone doing research on a University campus. It’s been my name on several boards.</p>
<p>Garland: great-grandmother’s maiden name</p>
<p>My name is just a joke that started when my son read To Kill a Mockingbird and Cold Sassy Tree for school. He was annoyed by all the southern names (though we live in the south) and I jokingly misinterperted Calpernia to Cowpernia just playing around.</p>
<p>Kluge is a term engineers use to describe a clumsy and inelegant fix for a mechanical problem. I’m not an engineer, but I’m big on clumsy and inelegant…</p>
<p>Coureur-</p>
<p>Do you do crossword puzzles? Some translations of the classics have “Aries,” but crosswords (or Latimore translations) invariably use “Ares.” Likewise, Athene is the really accurate way to transliterate (eta on the end, if I recall correctly), but we’ve mangled it to get “Athena.”</p>
<p>Streetlight Manifesto is my favorite band (they are a ska band)
My band has opened up for them every time they’ve played in NJ.
I idolize the songwriter/leadsinger/guitarist (who was ex-songwriter/leadsinger/guitarist of Catch22)</p>
<p>“Athena” is the way we’ve mangled it in English (also “Athene”) but if you’ll look at the Greek spelling you’ll note that the name is spelled with an iota, so that (following European transliteration) it would be “Athina”.</p>
<p>ariesathena -</p>
<p>Type Aries into Google and you get whole bunch of zodiac/astrology hits. Type Ares into Google and you get a whole bunch of mythology/god of war hits.</p>
<p>Not that I equate Google with the Oxford English Dictionary, but it does give a reasonable snapshot of current word usage.</p>
<p>Aries is the ram, right? The one that carried Helle and the other one across the sea?</p>
<p>celebrian: name of extremely minor character in Lord of the Rings (daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel) and I like odd numbers, and I so celebrian23 came to be</p>
<p>sarorah: nickname for sarah in arabic. :)</p>