River ,'War Stories'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Is it irrational to NOT want certain people to call you by a nickname? A nickname that several others use regularly? And not so much people as one person?
Not at all. I just had the same issue, someone at work found out my personal email starts with billytea and decided to start calling me that. Aside from the presumptuousness, it is so not my work name. You guys call me billytea. He's not you guys.
You guys call me billytea. He's not you guys.
You mentioned once that you prefer to be called William in person, and so when I've seen you in person, I've done that (even if my brain is still calling you billytea, it's INSIDE). Because that's what you prefer.
It's even more ridic with me: my MiL just called me "Aims" on FB. Lots of people call me Aims, but to me it's term of endearment and, well, I don't want her to call me Aims. People I love call me Aims and I do not feel love for her. I feel ... something else since she is the mother of my husband and grandmother to my child. But I don't know that I'd call it love.
I may just be cranky today. I'm convinced that I am not merely suffering from a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!) but from my body rejecting the amount of body fat I have and is creating mucous from it.
{{{Aims}}} I can see you not wanting your MIL to call you by your nickname, but I can't imagine a way to tell her that without major family drama.
You mentioned once that you prefer to be called William in person, and so when I've seen you in person, I've done that (even if my brain is still calling you billytea, it's INSIDE). Because that's what you prefer.
When Calli came to dinner on Friday (I need to post those pictures for lo! She Is Foamy and I should share), I did the B.org usual of, "Do you like [boardname] or [real name]?" And as usual, the response was, "I answer to either."
a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!)
Three weeks is usually time to see a doctor, because there's a good chance it's bacterial. Virii don't tend to last longer than 2 weeks.
(This is what my own doctor told me; it's possible he's full of shit, but I tend to trust him.)
I can see you not wanting your MIL to call you by your nickname, but I can't imagine a way to tell her that without major family drama.
Right?? Blech.
a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!)
Three weeks is usually time to see a doctor, because there's a good chance it's bacterial. Virii don't tend to last longer than 2 weeks.
What if the mucous is not a color that would signify infection?
When Calli came to dinner on Friday (I need to post those pictures for lo! She Is Foamy and I should share), I did the B.org usual of, "Do you like [boardname] or [real name]?" And as usual, the response was, "I answer to either."
Heh. There's a kink-world version of Facebook, to which I belong. And my username there is Teppy. So now the local people in the kink scene go back and forth between calling me Steph and Teppy, and it amuses me greatly, because until now, the only people who called me Teppy in person were you guys.
a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!)
Three weeks is usually time to see a doctor, because there's a good chance it's bacterial. Virii don't tend to last longer than 2 weeks.
What if the mucous is not a color that would signify infection?
Ooooh, good question! You know, I have no idea. I guess if the snot is clear, I'd give it a little more time.