There was an accident bad enough to leave pieces of car but they didn't take them? Wow

Work is frustrating today. I had a school assignment due yesterday that I didn't get in. I haven't even started on it. I did laundry two days ago and still haven't folded and put it away (I didn't used to care but now it BUGS me). My birthday is next week and we booked an Escape Room but so far I only have 6 of the 8 slots filled. People who said they wanted to do it have flaked and I'm running out of people to invite. Oh, and I'm also anxious about the Denver Comic Con job I applied for - the application period doesn't end until the 10th, so it is just a wait and see thing. But I kinda really want the job. I want to get started because there is a lot I need to learn to get up to speed. Plus I still have my regular job AND school to balance if I do get the job.

Sorry, total brain dump there.

I echo the suggestion to call the non-emergency line.

Although now I am thinking I should possibly file for a real name change because all my recent things are N____ Brooks T_____ and my childhood things are N_____ Marie T______, because I informally changed my middle name.

I think I should do the same. I've been going by my middle name since college, I even file my taxes as E__ L. S__, but my driver's license is in my birth name L__ E. S___. It's been confusing people for years. I should just change it legally.

There was an accident bad enough to leave pieces of car but they didn't take them? Wow

And no one was hurt enough to call an ambulance? Yeah, I'd call the non-emergency police number.

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Although now I am thinking I should possibly file for a real name change because all my recent things are N____ Brooks T_____ and my childhood things are N_____ Marie T______, because I informally changed my middle name.

I don't have this specific issue, but my drivers license and SS card have Susan as my first name. But I sign my name as Suzi. It is that way on my drivers license. I've run into problems where I've been told I have to sign Susan to match my identification and I try to argue back that the same identification has my signature with Suzi.

When I was a notary public in California, the rule was a person could sign the equal to or less than the name on their identification. So I could do Susan, Suzi, Sue, S but not Suzanne. I really don't remember the direction if a person goes by their middle name.

I run into that sometimes - my real name is 10 letters long so who have time to sign that? Plus literally no one calls me it. So I sign the shorter version I've on occasion been told it's not good enough.

Meanwhile my boyfriend literally squiggles a line for his signature and has never had an issue, so maybe we just need to sign less well?

Changing your name for reasons other than being a (het?) woman getting married is actually pretty onerous and costly. Or so I understand from friends who've been through it.

Interestingly, the passport agency does not need documentation of a legal name change if the change involves a standard nickname or a minor change. So if your birth certificate says you were born Susan Smith, and your current license shows you as Suzi Smythe, you can get a passport as Suzi Smythe without documenting a legal name change. Also, married women who changed their names at marriage and are now getting a first passport do not need to prove they legally changed their names. If you were born Susan Smith and have a license showing Susan Jones, and list Jim Jones as your husband on the application, they are fine with that.

OTOH if you are inconsistent about what your name is, that is more likely to be an issue with passports. If sometimes you are Susan Jones, and sometimes Susan Smythe-Jones, and sometimes Suzi Smythe, that is more problematic. Pick a name, is their philosophy.

My reward for today is going to be a hair appointment. I may be getting something dyed blue. Or purple, maybe. Probably not all of my hair, but something. I'm not going into an office at the moment, so it seems like a good time.