Harmony ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ita ! I got a squeeze tube of black honey lip gloss - Sephora had it a while ago.
And, in regard to eyeliner, I don't like the way liquid eyeliners look on me - aside from my inability to put it on smoothly. I use a smudgey line of eyeshadow instead and I'm comfortable with the way it looks.
So my current job has hired my replacement! She starts the Monday after I leave.
Unfortunately, this makes me want to not come to work at all for the next 2.5 weeks.
Rock on, amyth, with that thing that you TOTALLY DID NOT MENTION!
Am I being rude?
I think so. But I'm very particular about what I'm called. Refusal to accept my choice of name bothers me.
I talked to a social worker about my brother today. They are trying to get him stabilized and back on his meds. But at least they won't release him from the hospital until then. I talked to her about finding him alternative housing rather than going back to my parents. Really, my dad is 72 and shouldn't have to barricade himself in his bedroom because he's afraid of his son.
Blergh. I think I also have a board meeting tonight but I don't want to go.
Just ask. Say "hey, I noticed that you sign your emails mikey ray and I've been calling you micheal. Do you prefer Mikey Ray? Micheal? Princess?"
And leave it at that. He might not care, but if he does, it's huge.
Refusal to accept my choice of name bothers me.
Man, at a party earlier this summer, an acquaintance greeted me with "Stephieeeeeee!!!!" and I took her head off. I didn't really mean to, but god damn it, how hard is it to just say the one fucking syllable? It's actually MORE DIFFICULT to append extra syllables. "Steph" = 1 syllable. Simple. "Stephanie" = more work. "Stephie" = also more work, and certain death.
Because I have never, ever, EVER introduced myself that way, nor does anyone with a lick of sense refer to me that way. So being greeted with "Stephieeeeee" made me go from pleasant to evisceration in 0.4 seconds.
I do feel bad about it. A rational person could just say, "You know, I really prefer Steph," and leave it at that.
(But I haaaaaaaaaates it.)
I am Steph wrt to diminutive of my name. like omg why?!?
My brother's name is Kip, and it always bugged him to no end that our next door neighbor when we were kids constantly called him "Kippy." But, she was an older woman and we were always taught to never talk back to the elderly so he never corrected her.
Woo hoo, amyth!
I'm having a name thing at work -- there's someone I've never met, that everyone here refers to by his honorific, but he keeps signing his emails to me with a nickname. I am scared to write back to the nickname!
But if it were Michael Raymond-James, I'd probably just ask.