As someone whose last name appears near the end of alphabetical lists, I've often contemplated this problem and noted the arbitrary order of letters (being at the end of roll sheets in school often forced me to do certain activities last). There's definitely a certain type of logic there.

Yeah, I'm always at the end, too, so I rather like this idea. Just seeing the alphabet backwards is really weird, too - like here, for instance: http://nickm.com/ - I ended up just staring at that backwards alphabet for ages the other day when I realised what it was. So perfect, and yet so - backwards.