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.

Hil, I hope for the best for your mother.

I have little interest in the idea of changing my last name, unless he has a cool one (which reminds me of a HS friend surnamed Gumpel--I totally tried to wangle an intro to her brother, because I'd totally love to marry into that name, clunky as it would be with ita). I'm surprised by the talk of people dropping middle names. I don't think I've knowingly encountered that due to marriage.

My father changed his name when he left for university. He dropped his middle name (understandably so) and added his mother's surname as his middle name. And he then uses that as his first name, so he's all H. MothersSurname FathersSurname. Works on him.

Had a cousin who did the same sort of thing, shoving the awkward first name into an initial and going by the middle name.

The women? Some hyphenate, some concatenate (my mother is professionally MaidenName MarriedName, but socially just MarriedName), some leave it be.

And the kids just pick and choose. A number of them have chosen to go with their mother's name alone.

eta: Dammit, that article makes me want to change my name. What a git.

Gah. Clowns.