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.

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