Gregs

This is neither here nor there, but I've noticed a lot of Gregs on TV lately. There's a Greg on one of the teams in The Amazing Race 7. There's Dr. Gregory House on House. There's Dr. Greg Pratt on ER, and then there's Gregg on Survivor. It reminds me of a conversation I had with someone a few years ago. Her name was Angel, and I asked if she ever watched the show Angel. She said no. I asked if she ever watched Dark Angel. She said no. I asked if she ever watched Touched by an Angel. She said no. I said that that was too bad; if there were a show with my name in the title, I would watch it for sure. Then I realized there were two: Dharma & Greg and Greg the Bunny.

The weird thing about my name is that even though it's a common enough name that everyone has heard of it, I almost never meet people who share it. Throughout my entire academic career, I've never had a class with another Greg in it. In the four dorms I lived in in college, I was the only Greg. While I've met other Gregs in passing, the only one I could say I know is my father, and I don't call him by his name. And in the hundreds of people I've interviewed for the census, I've never come across another Greg. The reason I bring this all this up, is that if not for the media, I would never see other Gregs.