27th
Suffering From NFS (Naming Fatigue Syndrome) :: Help Me Name Our Newest Fish
#1 Leroy Bugs Brown: We got Leroy at Drew and Karamin’s wedding and flew him home from Tampa, Florida. Guess Omaha was a let-down. He eventually killed himself by jumping out of his bowl.
#2 Miles Logan Davis: Adina helped me pick Miles out. She also helped me name him, her first suggestion was, “Let’s name him after some money, how about ‘Hundred Dollar Bill?”
#3 w.nelson.mandela: On our way to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate Adina’s 6th birthday, Phileena and I stopped at the pet shop and picked up what would become our favorite fish (let’s not tell our current OR future fish about this favoritism-thanks). I still have his baby book.
#4 Martin Luther King Jr. and #5 Malcolm X: I got these two for our 10th wedding anniversary back in 2006. Since they’re betas, they needed to be kept apart. I think Malcolm actually lived longer than Martin.
#6 Santiago: Upon our return from walking 500+ miles from southern France all the way across northern Spain, we bought a fish and named him after the town our pilgrimage ended. Santiago was a pilgrim himself, journeying from Omaha all the way across the country to Durham, North Carolina. Sadly, while at the beach, we left him on the porch of the condo we had rented and he cooked alive in the hot sun.
#7 Sebatenga Asa: We got our 7th fish on Ethiopian New Year and so I facebooked my friend Yodit to ask her how to say “Seventh Fish” in Amarigna or Amharic, the Ethiopian national language. Somehow that guy is still alive, even after driving him the long way back from North Carolina with stops in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Iowa.
#8 Doo So Pochonobi Din: (pronounced “doo show pauchaa nob boi din” or “dou-show panchano nobui din”) which means “295 Days” in Bengali. The name was sort of a goal, that he would hopefully have lived at least 295 days, the period that we cared for Sebatenga Asa. And, he lived 316 days.
#9 Bebo Mi Propio Pipi: He unfortunately was named “I Drink My Own Pee” and lived in my office, but didn’t live long. Sad.
#10 Ngày Chiến Sĩ Trận Vong: He was named after some pretty heated voting. It means Memorial Day in Vietnamese, because: 1) we adopted him on Memorial Day and, 2) not all the soldiers killed fighting for America were Americans.
#11 Ndomokong Suh: Because Suh was perhaps one of the all-time best men to play at Nebraska, and obviously deserved this honor.
#12 Unicorn Named Diamond: Lucy Schroeder named “Unicorn Named Diamond” on a Schroeder-Heuertz skype call.
#13 ??? So I got our newest fish last week and have NFS (Naming Fatigue Syndrome) for the obvious reasons. So please send me suggestions that are meaningful, snarky, affectionate, creative, smug and fun.
