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Kam gave me (through means too circuitous to recount here) a new stuffed animal (it seems fine to refer to stuffed animals as "stuffies" when speaking, but somehow the term looks derogatory to me when written out). It's very cute, and very soft. I like it.

But we encountered some difficulty when it came time to assign various attributes, such as species, name, and gender.

There are currently three contenders for species:

• heffalump
• aardvark
• baby elephant

I have a preference among those, but I'm willing to listen to reasoned arguments. (Such as: "You idiot, that's obviously a _____." For some value of _____.)

Gender may depend partly on name, though I reserve the right to give my stuffed animals inappropriately-gendered names, so name may turn out to be irrelevant to gender. Still, there are currently two contenders for gender:

• male
• female

Finally, there have been several proposed names. I again have a current favorite, but would be happy to hear others. If you would like to suggest a name, drop me a note.

I may hold a vote/poll about this at some point. Or I may choose whichever name I like best. At any rate, I will certainly post all names received, unless I'm asked not to.