We've been married for a while now. I chose not to change my name when we got married because I'm lazy. I didn't want to go through the headache of filling out forms and standing in line. And I didn't want to be the only Me R'sLastName out there. Really, I checked, I googled, I don't like standing out.
I have a fairly common first and last name, at least in this part of the country. There's quite a few of me on facebook too. Then something snapped. I wish I could pinpoint where I wanted to change my name, but I can't. It would have come in real handy when I was trying to get a library card.
When I finally got around to getting my library card, and because there were so many of me in the library system, the automated machine wouldn't let me sign up. I was asked repeatedly if I had a middle name (which I don't) to distinguish me from the rest of the mes out there. It's the second time this has happened at the library. My father has a common first and last name which has made him a target of many fraud problems. We were getting a lot of phone calls about defaulted student loans and I believe his credit history was shot to hell as a result.
I've been having a hard time getting personalized emails too. I really hate having emails with numbers at the end too. They look incredibly unprofessional on resumes. I've been creative the first few letters of my name so that my emails don't require digits. When I started my new job, there was already a firstinitiallastname@company.org, consequently I became firstname.lastname@company.org. I am the only one. I hate that.
It wouldn't be immediate though. California's experiencing some bureaucratic delays with the new IDs, so I would have to wait quite a while. It's kind of weird looking too. I mean, look at this beauty -
So there you have it, I'm thinking about changing my name to first maiden R'slastname.
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