[Andy A.]

My name is Andrew Robert Alvarenga. It's not difficult to spell or pronounce (its phonetic!), yet people manage. the biggest mistake is to try a Spanish accent or spelling with it.

It's not Spanish, I don't speak Spanish, and I really don't like Mexican food. People still don't get it. It's hard being the only kid in New Hampshire who got his 'join the army' junk mail in Spanish, just because of his last name.

Anyone who can actually guess the nationality of Alvarenga right gets a cookie from me.

On the upside, it means the Andy B. is always going to be second place to me in any alphabetical list. w00t.

Additionally, my team, 95, is called the grasshoppers. Not the crickets or locusts. Grasshoppers people. No one ever suspects grasshoppers.

-Andy A.

p.s. Even the spell checker wants to change my name to 'Alvarez'. Maybe I should just give up.