Blogged Et Animam Levavi

As I was procrastinating at work today, I wrote a new section for my about page:

My name is George. Its origin is Greek (Γεώργιος) and it means "farmer" (Γεώ = "earth", εργο = "to work"). In Russian, which is my native language, it is Георгий (or Гоша, Жора and even Егор)—can you tell that Cyrillic alphabet is derived from Greek? But my russian friends call me Yura (Юра) or Yuri (Юрий)—it is much shorter, easier to pronounce and that is what I have in my passport. In Japanese, Yuri (ユリ) means "lily" and is often used to refer to all things lesbian.