Delightful bitches,
I've been toying with the idea of renaming this blog. I know we all just recovered from the great move from wordpress to typepad, and I understand the pain and anguish this must have caused you all. Hopefully you will alI agree that typepad is the SUPERIOR blogging tool. I still love Great Expectations and I still fully intend to become Miss Havisham in my twilight years, alone and crazy. I originally started this blog to talk about decorating my fabulous apartment in a lower haight victorian with my live-in boyfriend at the time. Miss Havisham is part of my crack-den hellhole thrift store bohemian dilapidated aesthetic devotees are very familiar with by this point. I also enjoyed having an arty farty outlet in my overly scientific life.
Now this blog has nothing to do with apartments, decorating, or any aesthetic at all. It's collapsed into an unstructured forum for me to regurgitate tales of my antics across the Bay Area. You guys were there when my 'tard ex cheated on me and when I had to move out of my BELOVED apartment (that part still hurts the worst I think) and couldn't get out of bed for a while. You were there when I went apartment hunting and met all the freaks of craigslist and you were my sounding board for the times I wanted to murder everyone I work with. There's a little bit of opinion. A little bit of rage. A little bit of mental illness. I do think a new name will perk the site up a bit and be more fluid with the tongue-in-cheek nature of my shenanigans. A Dickens reference is a little pretentious, anyways.
Logistically this is going to hurt like 8 bitches on a bitch boat. I will be asking all of you to change your links in the near future. I understand if you do not get around to this. Hopefully I can work out a domain routing thing again. You will also need to resubsribe to my new feed once it is set up. I hope all of you make this cross-over journey with me! It's so much fun to write for interweb strangers and even if my readership falls to 0 I'll still be writing it for me for fun.
Recently, my blog turned 1 year old. A lot has changed. I'm single, dating a little here and there and trying to find a new job, preferably remaining in laboratory animal welfare. So much is different from when I started RMH as an f-you to not being accepted as a blogger at apartment therapy possibly for dropping an f-bomb in my writing sample. I believe a new name is in order!
Let's get interactive with it. I have pretty much decided on which one I am choosing but I want to run it by anyone who would care first to see what the opinion is. Vote!
I was introduced to your blog through someone interested in the design aspect. She thought I'd get a kick out of your (mis)adventures.
Don't worry--I'll stick with ya, kid!!
ps I like A Sheep at the Wheel best. It's got a Wallace and Gromit-y feel to it.
Posted by: Rebo | February 19, 2009 at 04:09 PM
squid pro QUO, DUH! although you know i'm also partial to lobster mobster, for obv reasons...(its because i like lobbies).
Posted by: Alice | February 19, 2009 at 05:15 PM
i don't care what you call your blog, i'll go with you. and in regard to the last post, i think your random sneaky camera phone picture posts might be my favorite. that back hair is repulsive- and to think he was brushing the hair on his head. and the black wife-beater he was wearing is a totally seperate subject all together.
Posted by: erika | February 19, 2009 at 06:15 PM
These transitions can be really hard on a blog but you're doing the right thing by letting your readers know and participate in it. Sometimes we just gotta grow! Here's to exciting new times ahead. :)
Posted by: kathryn | February 19, 2009 at 09:04 PM
i voted.
The name of my blog makes zero sense. This is inspiring me to change it.
Posted by: corine@ hidden in france | February 19, 2009 at 09:52 PM
Just give the new name already. We will follow like "sheep".....
Lisa & Alfie
Posted by: lisa & Alfie at The Pickled Hutch | February 19, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Bah!
Posted by: mg | February 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM
looks like i voted for the *least* popular new name, but for some reason "Furious George" kind of cracks me up.
hm, there's a game:
http://furious-george.net/
Posted by: rachel | February 20, 2009 at 05:04 AM
I love reclaiming miss havisham. And I'm very very superstitious. You never change the name to a ship.
Posted by: Sol | February 20, 2009 at 07:03 AM
I will follow you anywhere, your people will be my people, blah blah blah.
I also love the name Reclaiming Miss Havisham and will miss it. But I come here for the writing and stay for the crazy. The name is just icing. I can go without icing.
Posted by: Perfectly Disgraceful | February 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM
i vote for squid pro quo. I like RMH even though that blog started for design. as long as a certain degree of lunacy is represented, it won't matter!
Posted by: ellen | February 20, 2009 at 10:30 AM
THANK YOU for dropping "Reclaiming." So master's-degree-in-women's-studies.
Just change it to Miss Havisham.
Posted by: A Nuisance | February 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM
I admire your rejection from AT by virtue of f-word. I love f-word. To be a chosen blogger there seems to be one of the more soul-crushing, resign yourself to drink the kool-aid, petty little jobs there may be in the world. Maxwell seems oblivious to the car wreck, but whatev. I voted for the squid. I don't really think you need to change your name, but if you need to change, I vote for change to squid pro quo.
Posted by: Kara | February 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I'll follow, whatever you decide, but I am very partial to this name. So partial that if you give it up I will steal it.
Posted by: hellogorgeous | February 23, 2009 at 08:17 AM
I didn't vote, as I didn't really like any of them. I vote for staying RMH. I like the crazy connotations. I don't want to start all my sentences with 'I' but I can't seem to help myself. I wish I could.
Posted by: Renate | February 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM