Birthday
Voces Amat was born on May 30, 2007. I went to Second Life (www.secondlife.com), clicked on "join" and put in the information. I got a premium membership so that I can do anything, including purchase land, and have access to lots of help! If you don't want to own land, membership is free, so you can have a second life and come join the online Bible society for free if you want. And I hope you will.
But back to the birthday. When someone is born, the parents have to come up with a name, which is what we did in the office yesterday. The Massachusetts Bible Society slogan is "One book, many voices" so I wanted something that related to that. "Voces" is "voices" in Latin, which seemed both cool and appropriate, so we picked that for a first name. Kudos to Office Manager, Sandy, who knew the plural for vox without thinking twice!
We couldn't be quite as creative with the last name, since SL makes you pick from a list of last names. It is a long list, however, and since "Amat" is Latin for "he/she/it loves" the combination seemed the best. Voces Amat it was.
Gender? Are you kidding? I'm the first woman to head the Society in its 198-year history. Voces Amat is female.
Then it was time to pick what Voces would look like. Initially there are five or six basic templates for each gender to pick from, then you tweak those later. The first one is sort of a plain-Jane sort. I think they call it "The Girl Next Door." Seemed a little boring. There was a goth option that seemed a little beyond what I was looking for, and I finally settled on "City chic" seeing as how we're in downtown Boston and all.
Then Voces Amat entered the world.
But back to the birthday. When someone is born, the parents have to come up with a name, which is what we did in the office yesterday. The Massachusetts Bible Society slogan is "One book, many voices" so I wanted something that related to that. "Voces" is "voices" in Latin, which seemed both cool and appropriate, so we picked that for a first name. Kudos to Office Manager, Sandy, who knew the plural for vox without thinking twice!
We couldn't be quite as creative with the last name, since SL makes you pick from a list of last names. It is a long list, however, and since "Amat" is Latin for "he/she/it loves" the combination seemed the best. Voces Amat it was.
Gender? Are you kidding? I'm the first woman to head the Society in its 198-year history. Voces Amat is female.
Then it was time to pick what Voces would look like. Initially there are five or six basic templates for each gender to pick from, then you tweak those later. The first one is sort of a plain-Jane sort. I think they call it "The Girl Next Door." Seemed a little boring. There was a goth option that seemed a little beyond what I was looking for, and I finally settled on "City chic" seeing as how we're in downtown Boston and all.
Then Voces Amat entered the world.
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