(Technically, my signature doesn't have any letters in it at all. It's very scribbly.)

I used to tease my dad about him slowly shortening his signature over the years. It started Lastna___ Then Last___ etc. These days it is a barely recognizable-as-such (pretty much half formed) first letter and a line.

You know what? I've started to do the same. I usually get the first 4 or 5 letters and it turns into a sometimes wavy line.

Don't give into the peer pressure, bon!

To tie the conversations together, it was years before I realized that my decision not to use my middle name had unintentionally made it harder for people to guess my sex. Oh well. You assume at your peril, junk mailers.

Form, form, form. Fuck function.

Man, no wonder this board sucks!

ION, I am doing school work after all. I was thinking I'd need to use a program I don't have to work with this data I have, but no! I can fake it just fine in Excel. Word. Charts = fun.

because I think SMM is unbalanced.

Sado-Married-Masochism?

Sado-Monster-Masochism?

Sado-Muppet-Masochism?

Yay Burrells and baby Isaac!!!

Weird names, classmates division--Elementary school classmates' family had four girls: Marcel, Marceline, Michelle, and Michelline. I call that being lazy.

I use the full first name, middle initial for signing stuff, including credit slips and checks, and all three initials when initialing, due to my entire family all having the same first letter for our first names, so we got in the habit of using all three letters very early in life.

Another great moment of the president relating with regular folks.

From a Social Security event in Galveston, Texas:

MR. BENTLEY: And we're operating in central Iraq. I'll be back there next week.

[Snip]

THE PRESIDENT: How many children you got?

MR. BENTLEY: We have two children. We have a four-year-old son named Patrick, and a three-month-old daughter named Elaine that I just got to meet for the first time.

THE PRESIDENT: Really?

MR. BENTLEY: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: No wonder you're emotional. (Laughter.) That's awesome.

MRS. BENTLEY: She was born two days after he deployed.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, great.

I almost always sign with my middle initial included. When I was growing up I had a step-sister with the same first & last name (because my dad adopted her). Both of us were always addressed with our first & middle names, too.

I always sign things with my middle name (which I don't use here because I do exist indentifiably online with the full name). As I've gotten older I've wanted a name with more meat in it instead of just the three syllables of first name-last name. Should have married a man with more syllables.

I nearly got in a fight with my mother because she said I had to lose my middle name on marriage and only use my maiden name as my new middle name. I think this stems from teh fact she hates her middle name and was glad to lose it (another family name that is stupid as a given name).

Lush is so screwed up. The package I sent to my mom and SIL for mother's day? It's in Massachusetts right now. I ordered it yesterday.

The package I ordered for Tim last Wednesday? Just landed in California. Lush is in Vancouver, which is up the coast.

Huh.

Oh! Secretary's Day started out well!

I lent a coworker my David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day.

He just returned it with apologies for "scribbling" on the title page.

I opened it and it's signed to me by Sedaris! He did a signing at UCLA.