March 12, 2008
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Are you happy with the name your parents gave you? Why or why not?
You know, I didn't like it when I was a kid. People would always make fun of my name Samuel until I reinvented myself as Sam. It was such an unusual name for a generation of Michaels, Seans/Shawns, Chris and Davids and such. For a long time as a 5 year old I wanted to be named Michael because then maybe the people around would the foreigner in their midst.
I like it now. It's a distinguished name with history: Samuel the prophet and Judge, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel L. Jackson, and of course Samuel Adams.
I googled my full name and came up with doctors, lawers, and pastors. So it can't all be bad if a small person like me working as merely an underling-grunt-school-teacher shares a name with those folks.
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I used to not like my name because it's the boys' spelling, but whatever. I don't know too many people with my name, so it's good. I don't want to be another "Jennifer," "Michelle," etc..
Anyway, how are you? What have you been up to?
Ah, but you forgot Samuel Barber, who, apparently, was quite good at composing classical music. (Barber is my last name -- no relation to the famous composer, though.)
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