T
he other night, I was thinking about Stormy Daniels. No, not that way, silly. I leave those dreams to other men. I was thinking how cool it is to have a first name that’s an adjective: “Stormy.” In contrast. “Bill” signals nothing about a person. Might as well call me “Ugh.” But call me “Stormy” and you’ve already got an indication of the kind of person I am. Same goes for other cool adjective first names like “Breezy,” “Happy,” “Sleepy,” “Grumpy,” and “Sneezy.” So, what would your adjective first name be? Perhaps you’d like to be called “Punctual” Jones. Or, maybe “Notorious” Wilson. The options are endless, and flexible. You could change it anytime you wanted to just by buying a new name tag to wear on your governmental shirt. Here at FELTG, if we had to pick an adjective first name it probably would be “Lawful-FELTG.” Not that we are a particularly law-abiding organization (have you seen our business-expense reports?). Rather, we are an organization that lives and dies by what our civil service laws are. In addition, we might like to be called “Scientific-FELTG” because we don’t teach anything that is not based on independent study by specialists in a field. We are big believers in data, and that’s what science is all about. And just as importantly, we would be honored to be called “Practical-FELTG.” That’s because we teach a lot of things that you can learn only from being out there in the field, where government really happens. So, if you dream of Stormy, in either a good or bad way, who could blame you? We just hope that you’ll dream of us every now and then, as well. We may not be as exciting as Ms Daniels, but night visions of us won’t be getting you into trouble with your significant other.
