Writing! Woo! Hi, and welcome to my one-track mind.

[apocalypsos]

But first, a meme.

1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.

Yes, ninety percent of all of the other girls born in the '70s. My mom says she named me Jennifer because it was pretty, and I say there are lots of other names that are equally pretty that weren't so freaking popular.

2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?

Embarrassingly enough, watching Supernatural obsessively has made me fall in love with the name Dean. If I had a son right now, I'd probably name him Dean Michael. If I were a real ass, I'd admit that it's made me fall for the name Sam, too, but I have a cousin named Sam and I don't like naming kids after living relatives. Well, except for middle names -- I want their middle names to be after relatives, since they're not everyday use and it's a nice way of not actually naming them after someone and still doing it. (I have two uncles and a cousin named Richie, two uncles named Bobby, two named Jim, and I had two named Eddie until a few years ago. So, yeah, two many years of having to respond to, "Wait, my uncle Richie or my brother Richie?" when talking to my mom has driven me nuts.) I like Serenity for a girl, too, but it depends a lot on the last name I'd be using. It needs to match, you know?

3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your name have been?

It would have been Christopher. If my brother would have been a girl, he would have been April (and he was born in April ... *gags*). We've agreed we like our mom and dad's taste in boys' names MUCH better. (Maybe it helps that somehow I've lucked out on knowing many Christophers in my life.)

4. If you could re-name yourself what name would you pick and why?

I don't know, as much as I get really tired of always having to deal with so many other Jennifers, I think it fits me by now. I wouldn't even know what to pick.

5. Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do w/ your name constantly?

No, it's my last name people fuck up. It's Italian but you can't tell by either the spelling or the pronunciation. Hardly anyone ever pronounces it right on the first time, and the chances of someone spelling it right on the first time are slim to none. I can usually tell one thing about someone who already knows how to spell it correctly, though, but I'm not saying what. ;)

EDIT: A pet peeve about books ... romance novels set in the current day and age featuring a non-religious, non-prudish female protagonist who just happens to be a virgin -- just the bad luck of never hooking up -- and has never had an orgasm. Speaking from experience ... uh, NO.

Comments

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

On #1...my mother says she named me Jennifer because my grandmother--her mother-in-law--was laying down the pressure for them to give their kids names from the UK. My sister got saddled with Heather. >_>;;;;

[jooniper-pearl.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god! Not another Jennifer/Christopher!! What are the odds! A few years ago I was going through some old papers of my mothers and found a scratch sheet of baby names. It was very weird to see what my name was going to be. I'm actually glad she picked Jennifer over Lily Marie. I'm so not a Lily ;) But Christopher, yeah, she had that one circled too!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. I get to tease my brother all the time because my mom named him after Bryan Adams. ;)

It could be worse, though. My mom had to argue with my dad because he doesn't like naming sons after their father (something he and I both agree on -- my poor future husband, should he really be set on naming his son after himself), and she almost named him after my grandfather which would have meant three Jims in the family.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

My mom grumbles because I always say that when she got pregnant, I desperately wanted a little sister, right up until the point that she told me her name would be April. After that, all I wanted was a little brother. :)

[paranoidgrl.livejournal.com]

There were 8 Jennifers besides me in my high school graduating class of 100. My parents told me they named me Jennifer because my father wanted to name me after his mother, whose name was, swear to God, Jonnie. My mother hated it, and managed to talk him into a J name.

My brother's name is Michael, which means they have absolutely no imagination when it comes to names.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

It occurred to me recently that I don't think I've ever met anyone named Sam. Ever. Or Dean, but that's not surprising. But Sam. *boggles*

But Serenity sounds like a stripper name. :P

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

In my graduating class of sixty, there were six Jennifers. Ten percent of the class was named Jennifer, for God's sake. That's so not right.

[jay-peregrine.livejournal.com]

One day the Jennifer's will take over the world. I find it ironic that my mom always says that no one else was named that when I was born and yet somehow it ended up being the #1 name in '73. (And my middle name ended up being #2. Parents suck.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know more people named Serenity than I do people named Sam. Now, that's weird.

And before the punchline comes, I actually do know a stripper, but her name is Jennifer, too. (And no, it's not me. ;P)

[dawning-star.livejournal.com]

My brother is the fourth to have his full name. He's already assured me that should he spawn--his words--he has an imagination and will name his kid something else.

My aunt is named after my grandmother, which makes for great mail confusion.

My middle name comes from a relative who died fifteen years before I was born. Ah, family.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

We're going to have to take over the world. There's certainly enough of us. ;)

And my mother says the same thing. Moms can be so oblivious.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

No, no, didn't you know? It's a physical and moral impossibility for a woman to obtain any degree of physical fulfillment or pleasure without a big, strong, manly and yet sensitive man to do it for her. Really, it is.

[theotherej.livejournal.com]

Dude, I totally agree with the Dean thing. I mean, I always thought it was a really cool name, but then Dean Winchester redefined "cool", and now every Dean I meet I'm like "HIIII HIIIIIIII!!"

Though, none of them are ever as hot as Dean Winchester. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

I also have a new appreciation for the name Jared.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know he probably wouldn't appreciate it, but the more I hear the name Jensen, the more I like it for a daughter. :)

[theotherej.livejournal.com]

THAT'S SO AWESOME

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I was with you on the heroine right up until "never had an orgasm." I was a virgin until just before my 19th birthday because none of the local boys would have me.

I have a Jennifer for a sister. She would have been a Christopher Michael, as would my other sister (who is a Brenda). I would have been Michael Christopher.

After getting Angelia (that's not a typo, and it's pronounced without the i) I decided all my kiddos would get nice, easy to spell names.

hola

[karrenia-rune.livejournal.com]

No, I did got named for anyone in the family, living or dead, but I came very close, it was either Frances, Dorthoy, or Sharon, because those were the American names of living relatives when my mom got married. I got the name Karen at a company picnic, and because it started with K, my younger sister got named Kim.

On children's names already picked out. No, not really, but I was thinking
Kaylee for a girl and yes, I love Firefly, why do you ask?
and possibly Nathan or Tyler for a boy. Nathan because of my love for
Marvel Comic's spin-off team, X-Force and the character of Cable.

I can't think what I would use if had to pick another name off hand.

On mispronouncing my name, I have pretty much resigned myself to having
my last name mangled on forms, on folks calling on the phone, on having
to spell it out for people on forms, on the phone, in the classroom.
My last name alone is eleven letters long and its French with lots of
silent vowels and consonants, so use, it gets mangled quite a bit, but
that's just the way it goes.

Buying text books once at the university book store, as I was filling
out the sales slip and my handwritten name did not fit on the little
dotted line on the bottom, the lady behind the counter told me that
I should marry some one with a nice, short last name. Granted this was
in the heart of midwestern St. Cloud, MN, aka German-town. Go figure.
Take care, Karrenia

[tabaqui]

Heeeee!
My older brother's name is Dean Kurt so watching/reading/writing SPN is sometimes...odd. Heh. I only know one other person who has *my* actual first name, but i think maybe someone on my flist does? Not sure...
*it's Carla*

I hated my name as a kid and wanted desperately to be called Rose. I named all my budgies Rose.

I loved the names Alice and Jane for our daughter but the SO did not so we finally settled on Elspeth, which is Scottish *which we love* and also the name of one of my favorite authors, Elspeth Huxley. Her middle name is from a dream an old friend of ours hand, which is how she found out i was pregnant.

My name is easy, but my Portuguese maiden name tripped people up constantly, even though it's actually pretty easy to say *and* spell.

I have no clue about 'what if i'd been a boy' but my middle name is from a Beatles song.
:)

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

To me, 19 is still young! I was 22 before I was ever even interested in the subject of sex at all, and almost 23 before I said, "I'm curious to see what all the fuss is about."

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

My mom wanted to name me Abigail. My dad had a long history of liking a name for about 2 weeks, and then changing his mind, so my mom kept "Abigail" in reserve until late in the game. It got shot down pretty quickly, as my dad pointed out that my name would be invariably shortened to "Abby" and that sounded truly truly awful with our last name; he had had to endure a similar awful sounding bit as a kid when everyone called him "Bobby," and he wouldn't put his kid through it. He wanted to name me Jocelyn.

My dad also had a rule that the cadence of the names sounded best with our 2-syllabic last name if the first had 3 syllables and the middle name was one syllable. Both of my parents are engineers. This should explain a lot. Anyway, I was born, and the still didn't have a name, so my mum made the decision and put Meredith Anne on the birth certificate.

Anyone who shortens it to Mary gets automatic fist-of-deathified.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

19 was incredibly frustrating for me. I was interested in sex by age 10. By 23, I was married and pregnant

[cuissesdefer.livejournal.com]

Dean is such a cool, cool name. I'd call my kid that but the name turns me on too much - i'd rather date someone called that. Dean Michael is a great name; good choice ^^

[umetnica.livejournal.com]

My brother's friend was a Dean, so that makes me imagine a tall skinny army guy. And Serenity was a chick in my high school who was bitchy to me; pity because I loved her name.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

Embarrassingly enough, watching Supernatural obsessively has made me fall in love with the name Dean. Word. Its the same with me. AND my dad's middle name is Dean so it could totally work for me...

Though my sister wants to give her first born son the middle name of Dean...(of course she also wants to give him the first name os Aslan so...and yeah shes 21)

Had I been born a boy I would have been Matthew Dean because thats what my sister was going to be named until she ended up being born a girl...becase our doctor said she was going to be a boy.