Allyson, I think that qualifies as grounds for sick leave. You aren't doing yourself or your work any favors.

So today my car went from a month of "hmmm, does it sound a little loud to you?" to "FUCKING HELL! WHO INSTALLED THE GLASSPACK WHEN I WASN"T LOOKING? AND WHY DOES IT SOUND LIKE THE MUFFLER IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF??"

So I need to get that in before I actually do leave part of the exhaust system in the road. Or piss off all the parents with sleeping children in a 2 mile radius. And make an appointment for crownwork. And call about a porch roof and gutterspout. And neither I nor my checking account want to do any of this.

I usually basically just write my name, in a semi-stylized way I made up many years ago.

I can't remember the last time I actually paid proper attention to what comes after the third letter of my surname.

Ahahaha! Mine is getting progressively shorter as well. 4th letter sometimes looks like itself then it is a bunch of bumps and squiggles. My Dad's has gotten truly ridiculous: it used to look like C______ and now it is just (______. I use a print first letter, so I'm not gonna get quite as bad as his.

My signature, weirdly, looks exactly the same way it has since about the ninth grade. Though actually, now that I think of it, both my parents still have legible signatures. Maybe there's some genetic MY NAME I LIKE IT, LET ME SHOW YOU IT thing being passed on?

a semi-stylized way I made up many years ago

Rachel Sylvester made mine up in fifth form. And considering how I draw my name more than write it--the cross stroke of the t transmutes into the entire body of the a which then loops up back over to the i to kinda dot it...thanks, Rachel! I love my signature! 25+ years and still going strong!

Uh, I don't always sign a last name, clearly.

My signature is very round and loopy and looks like a 13-year-old's. But it's what I've got. Took me FOREVER to learn how to sign Garvey nicely, though. And I use a print G instead of a script one.

I sign my first two initials, the first letter of my last name, and a squiggle. Works for me!

Cake for lunch is probably not good for one's blood sugar or state of mind. I'll have protein & salad for dinner, i think...

*If* I got married *and* I changed my surname (and also, should the apocalypse come...all equally likely...) I intend to just cut down to only signing ita. Exactly the same way Rachel designed it.

I don't know, Consuela. Cake is always good for my state of mind.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't changed my last name, but then I think about how confusing it could get for the kids, and honestly I can't be too stressed about it. Anyway, twenty-something years later, it is what it is.

My signature has my whole first name, and then T and complete scribbles.

My mom eventually changed to a print "t" instead of a script "t" because everyone thought her last name was Gaylor. After 20 years, it still looks forced, as does her middle initial, which she added after she had a welfare client of the same name try to take out a mortgage in her identity.