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Old 07-07-2011, 01:42 PM   #49
Sundae
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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... and they call the wind, the wind.

I was asked today what name I would like to have as my log-in at school (these things are only done once a year.) I asked for my derivative, which I see far more as my "real" name than my birth name. Which was fine with out IT peson, who always calls me that.

It does bug me a little that the Office Staff call me by my formal name, having been advised of my preference, but I guess that's because all the paperwork they handle uses it.
Something like a Criminal Records Bureau check does not allow for abbreviations.
But they don't call Mrs I Joanna, they call her Jo.
Still, she's been there for 11 years and I haven't officially been there one.

I'll win them over.

And I need to find some more windmills to tilt at, this one's getting old.
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