Arizona Eric

This is my first blog. Well, I should specify, I have blogged before on myspace, but that is largely reserved for silly things. My first blog is about my choice for my blog name: Arizona Eric.  When I moved to Arizona to study archaeology at the University of Arizona, my father said that I was going to be like Indiana Jones. Now of course, I couldn’t steal the same name. Besides, I do not have a dog named Indiana (supposedly this is where George Lucas got the idea), nor have I ever been to the state.  Arizona was much more suitable, and my name is not Jones.  So Arizona Eric it was, and for the first year of my residence in Arizona, my weekly phone-calls would begin with my dad asking, “How is Arizona Eric?”