New goal

Hey fanbase of six (and if you didn't hear that my fanbase has now increased to six, go to my other blog and read all the comments so that you're back in the loop), I have a new goal. Because for all my insecurities I'm a narcissist at heart, I want *me* to be the first thing that pops up when I--or anyone else--Googles me. Currently a search on Amanda Helms brings up a bunch of sites that are not related to me and feature people who aren't me or work by people who aren't me (and yes, I realize it should be "people who aren't I" but I'm going for a more conversational and less pedantic tone here).

And I have just discovered that the top result for Amanda Helms isn't even for a real person.* It's for a Web page that is available for someone who is named Amanda Helms. Now, I could buy that Web page and come up instantly as the number one Amanda Helms Web page, but where's the difficulty in that? Besides, the current page has things like "Background Check on Amanda Helms" and implies that the public ought to have access to my--or any other Amanda Helms who buys the page--driving record, litigation record (I don't have one), maiden name(s), criminal record, and lots and lots of junk that the public doesn't need to know about me.

But here's a freebie anyway: being unmarried and never having been married, I technically have no maiden name.

On the plus side, though, an item related to moi is the second result* that comes up when one Googles Amanda Helms. Go there and you can read a post of mine for a Yahoo group I'm in.

Anyhoo, as part of my plan to be first in Google searches on Amanda Helms, I will be rewriting my About doohickey for this blog. Cross your fingers, fanbase. I know I am.

*Note, however, that these rankings are accurate only as of 10/30/05, 3:47 p.m. central.