Name change! For real! Oh, and my birthday party. Also for real.

[gement]

I am changing my legal name to Robin. Hooray

Comments

[caladri]

Yay! Go you! Anything at all I can do to be supportive/helpful, please do not hesitate to ask!

I would love to be there, and wonder if it /might/ be possible to see you the afternoon of the 7th, as that's the day we're flying out to Cambridge, but I suspect not :(

♥

Yay!

[gement]

Yay! I have an email to respond to as regards other meeting arrangements, so it's all good.

[tereshkova2001]

Excellent! That sounds like a perfectly cromulent solution.
I am totally unhelpful with scheduling but I will be there whenever it is.
Be sure to let me know the dress code. I'll probably overdress anyway. :D

[gement]

Um. It might be a slightly Super party, so you have many ways to potentially be a highlight.

[tereshkova2001]

If you say superhero formal wear I am going to show up as USO Captain America.
Consider yourself warned.

http://www.journeysincolor.net/norwescon2014/h3845b895#h3845b895

[gement]

I wasn't going to request it specifically, but I was hoping. :)

[eeyorerin]

I love Robin as a name and Robin is one of my favorite Muppets. Sadly, I will be on the other side of the country grading AP exams during your name festivities, but I wish you well in absentia!

Is it okay to refer to you as gement in conversation ("So I was reading my friend gement's LJ the other day and they said...") or would you prefer Robin in all things?

[gement]

Gement is still great for all the sorts of social contexts where that's already the default. It's face to face sorts of things where it matters.

[eeyorerin]

Duly noted!

[tylik]

Of course, scheduling something for sometime when we're both in the same state would probably be best ;-)

[mimerki]

Yay name change!

I know that I still get a little smile every time I see something with my full name on it, even years later. I hope it does the same for you.

Also, feel free to kick me in the shins if I err on the name thing (though I often just reference you as Gement in conversation so that should be good). Ditto pronouns: I actually had that whole "don't use the third person plural to reference a singular person of unspecified gender" thing drilled into me pretty hard as a young person, so it can be difficult despite the fact that the language has changed. All of which is a lot of words to say "I want to call you those things that make you happy and comfortable, and I would rather you corrected me than that I continued to screw up."

[gement]

That's all I ask! Thanks!

I am *really* hoping this gives me the mental space to ease up on pronouns, because that is energy I am so tired of spending.