Okay, I also keep track of the times “Agualeguas” comes up in the blogosphere. It’s a unique word and only comes up every once in a while.

In a new Agualeguas siting: there’s a show in San Nicolas, outside Monterrey, entitled “El Codo de Agualeguas.” This blog talks about going to the show.

Interesting.

One of the things I do for work is track specific keywords and topics online. That means news, Web sites and blogs. It says something about my vanity that one of the phrases my spiders are set to track is “Sandra Fernandez.”

I’ve found some very interesting things through this particular search. For example, a Google search on my name will give you, as the number 1 result, a page that pronounces “Sandra Fernandez has left the campus….” This is a Web page I put up when I left the University of Houston… in September 2000. Nearly six years later, no one has pulled it down.

There’s a listing for a Sandra Fernandez on the Internet Movie Database, one of my favorite sites for finding movie information. There’s an Argentinan singer, a Latin American artist, my profile on the MeetUp site, an author for Pentagon Reports, and (my favorite) the name of a character in Rebelde Way (an Argentinan telenovela).I now have to add a pastor and a Polo player.
I used to think my name was unique. I find that that’s incorrect.

I wonder how my vanity will take that.

Today would be my Father’s birthday. In Mexico, it’s Mother’s Day. Normally, we try to have some sort of celebration that combines the US Mother’s Day and Dad’s birthday. Not this year.

On Saturday, Jessica graduates (obtaining her Master’s Degree), and we’re having a party that evening. I think we might do something for Mother’s Day on Sunday. It’s just right to celebrate, since we have two and half Moms in the family now (my Mother, Criscella and Jessica… even if it’s just a peanut right now). But for me, this year, this celebration of Mother’s Day, feels wrong.

Just a venting. I’m not sure what I’m feeling.

Last week I presented a promotional workshop at the Texas Library Association’s annual conference. This week someone asked me if I’d teach an introductory class for librarians on how to maintain Web sites. Yesterday someone asked me if I was taking freelance clients for online marketing projects.

Wow! When did I become an expert?

At this point I’ve been working in public relations for 12 years. I’ve been working with Web sites, in one capacity or another, for more than nine years. I’ve been manager of a division for nearly four years. I think I may actually qualify as experienced.

Today I’m at work, coordinating a volunteer on a digitization project of my office photo archives. Some of them go back to the 1970s and are in slide format. It should be interesting to see what’s in those boxes.

Gotta go. My expert opinion is needed.

One of the many, many things I have my bots watch for is the word “Agualeguas.” Every once in a while I get a hit, but it’s usually a spamblog of some sort. Not so this time — this time I got a really neat little post about someone taking a Saturday road trip to go to the Presa de Agualeguas. Nice.