meme
6 random things
1. If I’d been a boy, my name would have been Jeffrey David.
2. My parents were sure they were having a boy. So sure, in fact, that they hadn’t discussed girl names.
3. I was named after my father’s dead ex who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend while on the phone with her alcoholic mother. Why my own mother went for this, I will never know. Perhaps after the 70s-era C-Section she was disinclined to be picky.
4. My mother claimed she wanted to name me Alison, after the character in The Magus, but it’s my mother, so: grain of salt.
5. I would have like to have been named Alison. Also Sara, Julie, Susan, or (briefly) my old middle name, Diane.
6. When we got married, we both changed our middle and last names. So there! (I have the same first name as always, though…clearly I didn’t think that one through.)
Names are a funny thing. I really wanted to change my name to Samantha for a period of time. I really wanted people to call me Sam. But as I grow older I appreciate my name more and love being known as Mel.
Although, I have to give it to you. That is a crazy name story. Thanks for sharing!
Comment by Melissa Gutierrez — December 9, 2008 @ 10:26 am