Just Antisocial

[affreca]

Naka took a lot out of me this year. I'm glad I already decided to swap jobs before it, because with the number of people coming up to the consuite, I can't be nice and social for 18 hours a day. Or even 8. I'm an introvert. So I spent the last few days interacting with as few people as possible (though I did go renew my drivers license.)

WisCon panels are up. My women vet panel made it to the line up. I didn't check to see what they did to my write up, I hope they improved it. I volunteered to be on that panel, and one about Phyllis Eisenstein (mostly because she's an obscure enough author that it surprised me. I read most famous book when I was about 10, and own all but one of her novels. The one I don't own is impossible to find).

Birthday this weekend. I took down all the winter holiday cards and put up my three birthday cards (all from my grandparents).

Etiquette question: Should I bother to tell the grandparents that I share a last name with that I still share their last name? It really isn't important in the long run, but I like my name. Thankfully, the check they sent for Christmas was to [my first name] and [lawnchair's first name] [lawnchair's last name], so we just deposited it into the joint account.

Comments

[verminiusrex.livejournal.com]

It's fine to tell the grandparents that you kept your name, but don't expect it to change anything. Marz had that issue for years before her grandparent's passing.

[revena.livejournal.com]

As the above commenter says, it won't make a difference. Everyone knows I didn't change my name, and certain people will address things to me by Jimmy's surnname even so, despite multiple reminders.

And yay, you're going to WisCon! I suspect I'll see you there. :D

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Hope to see you at WisCon. I went to my local sci-fi con which is on the same weekend last year, and was seriously disappointed by the programming (especially compared to WisCon). This year I talked graydown into coming with me.

I'm pretty sure retelling my grandparents is unnecessary and useless. It just amuses me that it is the default, even though I was the only grandchild to share their (admittedly quite common) last name.

[graydown.livejournal.com]

I sympathize -- I'm in hiding until Tuesday. I may not be fit for human company even then... I did some bad things to myself physically, too, though I didn't realize it. Turns out that seventeen hours in an extremely uncomfortable chair does bad things to the back. Who knew? :P

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Hope you make it Tuesday, but I understand. My feet fucking hate me, I can't imagine how bad it would have been if I couldn't have moved around.

[graydown.livejournal.com]

Sad feet :( Sitting all day didn't feel bad at the time, and the bruises across the backs of my legs are gone...

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and then there was cake. Tasty, tasty cake.