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Date: 29 July 2008 22:55:20
If I'm going to be completely and utterly honest with you, gentle reader, I'm not a big fan of my surname. It's not an especially common one, but not an especially unusual one either. It just seems slightly awkward to me, and for some reason I just have a bit of an aversion to using it - usually at work, if I'm asking someone to send me a fax, I'll just say to address it to "Steve" (thankfully I am, as Matt Lucas might say, The Only Steve In The Office) and only give my surname if asked for it.
However, in recent times I've noticed that some of my friends have taken to calling me just by my surname. And while I don't have a problem if they're being mock-formal and calling me Mr XXXX (that's an anonymity device there, I'm not named after an Australian lager), it winds me up a bit if I'm just XXXX on its own. One of my best friends, who I love dearly, is probably the worst offender, but I'm aware that I often just call her by her surname and derivations of it, so my challenge for the next month is not to refer to her by her surname at all, and see whether she ends up doing the same back to me.
Meanwhile, it is now 30 days until my 30th birthday. I have something planned... watch this space...