There's something sort of creepy about being able to see where my website visitors come from. I can, in case you didn't know, by tracking my site statistics. They tell me where visotors' IP addresses are registered and the websites that referred visitors to my page, along with a host of other mostly impersonal information.
Which is why, when clicking through my referrals today I was able to see that someone visited my site after Googling the phrase, "crush on elli." My heart sort of leaped to my throat when I read that, sucker that I am for all things crush-related and romantically juvenile in nature.
I considered for a second that it might be someone I know. How many girls are there named Elli, anyway, and how many people would Google that? Maybe it was someone I'd met only once, but he remembered my name and didn't know how else to find me. It's possible!
But I clicked through some more and found that my smitten Googler is doing his/her Googling from Finland. Much to my dismay, I have never met anyone from Finland and, upon closer consideration, this person could have meant anything at all by the phrase "crush on elli." Maybe elli is a Finnish slang term for driveway and my Googler was looking for crushed stone. Maybe elli is a fancy type of drink involving crushed ice. Or maybe some sweet Finnish boy has fallen hard for a lucky Finnish girl named Elli, but when he went searching for her he found me instead.
Well, my Finnish friend, whatever it was I think it's awfully cute. You can have a crush on me if you want, as long as I can make up stories and have an imaginary crush on you.
The internet is so accomodating that way.
