I get a good number visitors to my site from the United Kingdom. I don't think it's because I'm a big hit in Britain (although I would love to believe that), but rather it turns out that I happen to share a name with a (somewhat popular?) newspaper columnist out there. What I find funny is that this other Tim has a bit of a proud preoccupation with searching for himself on the Internet. He's written about it in his weekly column and he's even published a book themed in the concept of passive Internet narcissism. (By the way, give it 10 years, and I guarantee that you'll see that as a subtype of some disorder in the DSM.)
Of course, I'd be a dirty liar if I said that self-Googling isn't a hobby of mine as well. As I've previously made known, I'm well aware of many of the other Tim Dowlings who walk this planet. I wonder: how many of them feel like they know me via this blog? How many have followed my trials and tribulations and months and months of non-posting over the years? How many times has my existence been cursed during the drafting of a column or chapter? Just as I'd like to think that I'm big in Britain, I would also like to think that this eponymous domain is the bane of other Tim Dowlings' existences. I'm sure you all would agree that inadvertently being the bane of someone's existence is quite a validation of one's significance in the world.
You know, I would love to start some sort of business with a couple of other people who have the same name as me. It would be so novel and confusing. What I'm not sure about yet is whether it would be more amusing if we all looked hilariously similar or hilariously different.
Is this weird? I'm starting to think that this is weird. I think I need to step away from the Internet for a little while.
You're the bane of my existence. Hooray! You're significant!
I loooooooooooooove yoooooooooooooooouuuuuu!