A Rose By Any Other Name

[ciroccoj]

Silly meme time! Taken from a bunch of people - I think shellmidwife was the last place I saw it.


If you call me Jim, you must be just about everybody I know in RL.
If you call me Jimena, you must have just met me and think I'm kidding when I said "Please call me Jim."
If you call me Hee-mey-na, you must be an English-speaker who is earnestly trying to pronounce my name the Spanish way, and I appreciate the effort but I really wish you'd stop.
If you call me Ji-MEE-na, you must be my idiot co-Don from Residence. Please die.
If you call me Jimmy, you must be Chris, a member of his family, or a close friend.
If you call me Bunny, you must be Chris.
If you call me Mama, you must be Daniel or Justin.
If you call me Pamena, you must be my cousins Felipe and Loredana, who could not say Jimena when they were little.
If you call me Pam, you must be my mom, who made a nickname out of Pamena.
If you call me Perrito, Chica, Reinita (puppy, little one, and little queen, respectively), you must be my mom.
If you call me Xi, you must be my mom.
If you call me Ex-ie, you must be my childhood friend Isabel.
If you call me Claudia, you must be someone who knew me before high school, when I started using my middle name.
If you call me Claudia Zimena, you must be the Ontario College of Teachers. Please fix it.
If you call me Cirocco, you must be somebody who knows me from Soapbox, lj, ff.n, and various other online forums, boards, and mailing lists.
If you call me ciroccoj, you must be somebody from lj.
If you call me Cir or CJ, you must be somebody who's gotten to know me from lj or online.
And BTW, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that my online initials CJ for Cirocco Jones, and my RL initials CJ for Claudia Jimena, were the same.

I've been reading Contracts cases all morning, while Marta cleaned again. My house is very clean and I'm still fully caught up with readings, and I even found that having been away from Contracts for a couple of weeks, reading the cases wasn't quite as onerous as normal.

I think I'm OK to do housework, too. My incision doesn't hurt that much any more - not even when I laugh or cough. I know I'm still not quite 100%, but I don't think I need quite so much extra help. I'll have to talk to Marta.

Still haven't heard back from my mom. Hopefully no news is good news.

I took breaks from Contracts by reading the third Outlander book. Wee bairnies and parritch and I dinna kens, and all that. And I found a couple more pix from Queen's University Frosh Week. Check out the purple people in kilts. They're probably about to sing Oil Thigh Na Banrighann.

Comments

[jenniferjames.livejournal.com]

If you call me Jimena, you must have just met me and think I'm kidding when I said "Please call me Jim."

::meep::

Sorry. I guess technically I've never 'called' you Jimena since we've never spoken, but I have addressed several emails to Jimena. Won't happen again! :-)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Heh - no, I actually only mean that for RL, and I'm partly joking. Even Chris still occasionally calls me Jimena. I just notice that the people who only call me that in RL usually do so because they think I'm kidding when I tell them my nickname.

I've also had (2) people ask me if I'm a lesbian, when I tell them to call me Jim.

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[tobiascharity.livejournal.com]

I've also had (2) people ask me if I'm a lesbian, when I tell them to call me Jim.

Hee! I've never been asked if I was a lesbian because of my name (been asked that for other reasons, though), though I have been mistaken for a boy.

the first year i was a camp counselor, i'd submitted my interview and various forms through letters and i'd never actually verbally conversed with the people who were hiring me. i'd written my name on all the forms as "Tory," and they assigned me to a boy's cabin because they thought i had a penis.

(i actually wound up staying a counselor to the boys; they just shifted some of the day camp counselors around so i had a male co-counselor. was pretty funny.)

[bear.livejournal.com]

I've also had (2) people ask me if I'm a lesbian, when I tell them to call me Jim.

Okay, confession time: for the first month or so that I saw your around you online, I thought you were a gay man. Because, well, your e-mail said Jim B. And you referred to Chris as your partner. And on top of all that, you wrote Rey, and wrote him *so* well, and I just figured, hey, Cirocco must be one of those rare male fanfiction writers.

I don't remember when I figured it out, but boy, did I feel stupid. :)

[bear.livejournal.com]

I saw your around you

That should be "I saw you around." Not quite sure how I screwed that one up.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

I thought you were a gay man.

Hee :D :D I've been assumed to be gay, and a man, but AFAIK, never a gay man.

Oh and if you think the Jim and Chris thing is confusing - I once went out with a guy named Aaron. There were some mighty confused people when we were introduced as Jim and Aaron and then had to correct them on who was which.

[minnesota-anne.livejournal.com]

If you call me Claudia, you must be someone who knew me before high school, when I started using my middle name.

Ooh, I love meeting fellow middle-namers. We're such an elite group. :)

I started going by my middle name in high school, too, coincidentally...