trail name...

so, my friend adrian (who has thru-hiked the appalachian trail) tells me i need a trail name for my journeys on the AT. he suggested "sue esponte" (as in sua sponte*). but "sua" is a dumb first name. i could go with "sue esponte", but that sounds hispanic, and nobody's gonna see my pale skin and green eyes and confuse me for a latina.

i have decided to use "jackie argon" as my trail name.

a few years ago, my friends joe, joe, brad, and katey, who were all housemates in philadelphia, came up with an idea for a television drama/mystery/espionage/crime-fighting series called "bird squad seven". the whole thing was fantastic. the four of them were the stars -- they were the bird squad 7. joe g was allen skinnypants and he ran an old bookstore with the help of a monkey named norman mailer, katey was a plain-by-day, smokin'-hot-by-night librarian named barbara mcgillicuddy (i'm pretty sure that was the name of her high school librarian), brad was james fangers, the leader of the squad, and good gracious i can't remember joe t's name (i'm really hoping katey still checks in on this blog and can fill in the missing pieces here).

so the four of them solved mysteries and saved the world and carried out all kinds of of 70s-and-80s-television-show-inspired plot lines. and sometimes they needed a little help from their friends, the supporting cast. i was one of those supporting cast members. my name was jackie argon. i specialized in chemistry and computers, and i lived in a bubble. i also wore a headgear and a prom dress. despite all of my pleadings, joe and joe and brad and katey would not change their minds about jackie argon wearing a headgear and a prom dress. nonetheless, she was very intelligent.

so there you go. my trail name? jackie argon.



* sua sponte: (sooh-uh spahn-tay) adj. Latin for "of one's own will," meaning on one's own volition, usually referring to a judge's order made without a request by any party tot eh case. These include an order transferring a case to another judge due to a conflict of interest or the judge's determination that his/her court does not have jurisdiction over the case.