Her eyes flew open and she squealed, Really? Is he a hairdresser?
I bask in validation! Also, if you want close attention to detail talk to a fetishist. I'm sure The Boy could give a dissertation on rope maintenance.
As for the name change, I will just note that such symbolic gestures take their meaning from context. That is, you can't say that you lack integration just from rejecting your old name. Sometimes the healthiest thing to do is make a break and recreate yourself. Everybody does it many times over in their lives. You're not beholden to hold on to a damaged version of yourself.
Starting over can be the healthiest thing ever.
Coffee: oh crap, Hil. I'm so sorry. Tons of ~ma for your mom.
My school website is being wonky tonight. I want to go to bed, but my professor said no late assignments. What to do.
I'll probably take TCG's last name when we decide to marry. We plan on having kids, and I want to have the same last name as my kids. It's silly, but when my mother remarried it upset me that we didn't have the same last name anymore.
Health~ma to your mom, Hil.
I kept my last name. After all, I had so much time invested in spelling it for people, plus it was my byline.
Your chosen name is your name. for whatever reason you chose to take it, so it is you. An old name may have always been the wrong name, or it is what you were, not what you are.
A few times I 've tried to go to Elizabeth, but it just doesn't work. and I have never been able to come up with a good on line name, because I can't find a comfortable name.
My last name - same as it ever was. but then again, I've know DH since elementary school, so my last name is part of how he has always known me. I think if we had wanted kids, something different might have happened, but what, I don't know.
That's...descriptive.
Woah. Ugh. Waugh.
Glad to have been of assistance.
My brother and SIL decided to change their name to something different when their daughter was born. It really hurt my dad's feelings, my bro is the only son of an only son. I have a pretty common last name, so it's not like the name died out or anything. I have always thought that I would use my maiden name as my middle name professionally, so I would be Vortex LastName MOD*LastName, but technically, Vortex MODLastName
*MOD=Man of my Dreams
Vortex, did they end up doing the namechange? Last I heard a few years ago, you were telling me they were going to change it to...his first name??
I changed my name when we got married last year, and many of my friends were very surprised, considering my politics.
Ack! You are not the name I've been thinking of you as! My world view is...not terribly altered. Says the woman with a pseudonym, talking to someone previously known by a pseudonym! :)
Vortex, did they end up doing the namechange? Last I heard a few years ago, you were telling me they were going to change it to...his first name??
I don't know if they did it legally, but a last week, they were interviewed by the Post about Eastern Market and they used the new name.
Meara - speaking of your pseud....the other weekend as K-Bug and I were driving to brunch, I was trying to fill her in on who was going to be there and a bit of background on those she didn't know - mainly you, I must admit. But in all that, I forgot to tell her your real name. I kept using your pseud. The first time Lee or juliana used your real name I realized my error and felt like a total dork.
