I am a chosen person!! I think we all pretty much suspected that I must be somehow "chosen" for something. I found out from a DNA test from the National Geographic genographic project that I am most likely an Ashkenazi Jew on my mother's side. Subsequently, I read that most of the people who were murdered by the Nazis were Ashkenazi Jews. :( It seems that our end was written in the name. Eek. Am I the only one to ever notice that? I called my mother and told her the good news. She remarked, "you know, I always thought I was Jewish!" And I said, "Me too!" She said that she thought she was Jewish because her dad looked Jewish. I probably just thought if anyone was a choosen person it should probably be me. Also, my last name is German and I have never liked the Germans (or Japanese for that matter) for their post-WWII weasel-ways.

I posted my DNA results on a website and a woman with my dad's last name contacted me. So, we are both "haplogroup k" on our mothers' side (so we likely have an ancester in common) and one of her relatives has my dad's side's last name.* Hmmm. It is probably just my lack of understanding of genetics that makes this interesting to me. Ahh, the joys of ignorance.

More about me and where I have been all this time. Two things have driven me back...

1. Lack of people to talk about "Second Life" with...
2. Lack of people to talk about celebrity news with...
3. Well, there is one more. I was about to break with Paris Hilton over her acting like such a child over her upcoming imprisonment and I was faced with previously listed problem number 2. (She posted an apologia on her blog so that break is postponed pending further developments.)

*I would state my slightly unusual last name but I don't want to go down the same ugly path of seeming like an idiot by having someone who knows me actually...read my blog.