10/12/2001 06:52:36 PM
i just realized... i have so many aliases, some people don't know what to call me anymore. my real name is long and french and hard to pronounce for people who don't speak the language. it has 10 letters in it. i never liked it, not because i find fault in the name itself, in french it's lovely, in english it's frequently twisted and contorted into ugly sounds, or shortened into something i don't like much. the beginning of every school year was the same, when teachers would do roll call, and get to the D's, i knew what they were frowning at, and raised my hand to indicate that long ass scary name was mine, and that they could just call me something else. usually just the first half of my full name, though i did try an experiment in grade 8 foods class, telling my teacher to call me holly instead: that didn't work out to good because he would talk to me and i wouldn't notice, and i'd ignore him completely. teacher's don't like that much. some of my friends dropped the fifth letter, and called me marj, as in simpson only spelt different, and that was groovy, still is, but i longed for a cute sassy english name, and i picked one from a song (NO NOT A FUCKING ROD STEWART SONG), and it's served me well. move around and meet enough new people and you can do that... pick a name and have it stick. nobody knows you so you don't have to remind them all the time. midge came from husband, later on... and it stuck. we call eachother a million different weird things, but midge fits, though i have no desire to use it as a legal name... ew. intimate screwball nickname of sorts i suppose. i also had fake id's, one really bad one with a weird ass hippy name on it, one with anna something... it was supposed to be from ontario, it was a bit better, cost a whole lot more too, but it only fooled bouncers at dive bars filled with pongos... and who wants to go to places like that...

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