The Name Game

Miss Stacia's afternoon musings on her parentally-furnished name, Stacey (Lauren) Brook:

1. A VP in my office, with whom I had had no direct contact before an interaction this morning, apparently attended a summer camp in upstate New York that contained within it's grounds, nature's very own Stacey Brook. As in the running stream of water bearing the exact same name, "e-y" spelling and all.

2. I already knew of the existence of said brook from a vain Google search.

3. For some reason I decided to inform the VP of my search engine-facilitated familiarity with his childhood tubing grounds. He did not seem impressed.

4. In addition to the aforementioned "Babbling Brook" (papa dukes' college radio tag) or "Stacey Stream" (nickname coined by elementary school gym teacher, Mr. Cyr), there also exists Stacey L. Brook, co-author of The Wages of Wins, a non-fiction book that has been described as "Freakonomics meets ESPN." I first encountered Stacey L. Brook's sports myth dubunkage in a New Yorker feature earlier this year, just as my Fantasy Baseball season was kicking off. Maybe my twin-in-name would have passed on A-Rod as her first round pick. She definitely wouldn't have chosen Edmonds over Lee in the outfield.

5. Stacey L. Brook is probably responsible for the heartbreaking unavailability of staceybrook@gmail.com. But I beat her to staceybrook.com, so we'll call it even.