everybody's doing it...

[sev]

that name meme. [edited to add a couple more I thought of after posting]

If you call me sev, you're nearly everybody I know; you might even be my mother.

If you call me sevoo, you're my sister, my niece, somebody I feel damn close to, or you're a cute dreadlocked boy and you're about to ask for a favor or at least a hug. Or, at this point, you're somebody who primarily interacts with me through this LJ, I guess.

If you call me li'l sevoo ann you're annb.

If you call me Sev -- in writing, with a capital "S" -- you've never encountered me on the 'net or you don't really pay attention to how I refer to myself.

If you call me Mrs. Zoller you're a telemarketer and you're about to get a piece of my mind.

If you call me Cheryl you're either somebody I have a professional relationship with or you're my father, a grandparent, one of Ethan's parents, an ex who's trying to maintain a little distance, or an old high school friend (or, apparently, you're zyxwvut or somebody else from that mid-college period of my life).

If you call me Cher you're probably my father, and unless I'm in a very good mood, you'll be glared at no matter who you are.

If you call me Primrose you know me from DruidMuck and we haven't interacted for over seven years.

If you call me Tigger I haven't seen you since high school.

If you call me Cherry you're either my great-aunt Inez or you're going to get firmly ignored.

If you call me Bear you're probably my maternal grandmother, and no matter who you are you'll be ignored.

If you call me Daddy you're...well, ahem. Anyway. :)

Comments

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

If you call me Cheryl you're either somebody I have a professional relationship with or you're my father, a grandparent, one of Ethan's parents, or an ex who's trying to maintain a little distance.

Oops. I happen to be none of these, but I guess I'm a Big Fat Wrong, anyway. I plead Sev Contact Deprivation, which has only just started to be remedied. %-}

Z

P.S.: And I'm stuck on your pre-married last name, too. D'oh! (Or is it that you didn't change it, but telemarketers *think* you did?)

[sev]

hee-hee. I think I blame the disconnect more on my faulty memory than anything else. I'm a little fuzzy on what people call *now* -- and even moreseo, on what people have called me in the past.

[sev]

Look, I completely missed the PS! My last name was and still is Trooskin. I do not expect people to remember that. :)

"Do not expect people to remember"

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Well, I did[*]. %-}

My inference here is that you prefer "Sev" -- which I'll remember for the future.

Z

P.S.: * -- modulo mentally adding an "h" in there where it didn't belong...