named

Today I feel like posting my answer to some silly name meme that was circulating months ago. It had something to do with names. I think. Here goes: If you call me Halsted, you are at least acquainted with me, and most likely a friend or colleague. If you call me ‘Sted, you’ve been introduced to me as such, either by me (unlikely within the past ten years) or by someone who was introduced to me as such. If you call me Kelly, you work at the Peet’s I visit weekday mornings, where I give a fake name for my order because no one, not anyone, hears me correctly when I say my name and that’s just too damned much time to spend buying a cup of coffee. If you call me Boss, Captain, or Ma’am, you are one of my sarcastic employees and I adore...