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3:12pm July 23, 2014
I didn’t realize the DMV would just print my ID card and give it to me today!  I thought they’d have to send it in the mail.  So now I have an up-to-date photo ID (I’ve had an expired one for a year now) and it’s in my new name, and I’m happy.  And especially happy that they put my entire name on it, not just initials.  The Voicy part is especially important to me these days with the family roots being important, and Evelyn is my connection to Anne, so all of these things have to do with connectedness and rootedness and I’m very happy with all of it.   And my facial hair showed up on the photo which I’m quite happy about as well, you can actually see dark fuzz on my chin.  It shows up very differently in photos depending on the lighting, same as my unibrow.  So I’m very happy that the chin hair and the unibrow and everything is evident, because I never feel like I look like myself in pictures where they use so much contrast or glare that you can’t see any of that. Each new piece of identification and paperwork and cards and stuff that I get makes me happier.  I think that means that Amelia Evelyn Voicy Baggs is the right name.  (Mel, of course, being my “real” first name.  Amelia is for paperwork and camouflage.  But as female-sounding names go, I like Amelia, and I like what it does to my signature.)

I didn’t realize the DMV would just print my ID card and give it to me today!  I thought they’d have to send it in the mail.  So now I have an up-to-date photo ID (I’ve had an expired one for a year now) and it’s in my new name, and I’m happy.  And especially happy that they put my entire name on it, not just initials.  The Voicy part is especially important to me these days with the family roots being important, and Evelyn is my connection to Anne, so all of these things have to do with connectedness and rootedness and I’m very happy with all of it.  

And my facial hair showed up on the photo which I’m quite happy about as well, you can actually see dark fuzz on my chin.  It shows up very differently in photos depending on the lighting, same as my unibrow.  So I’m very happy that the chin hair and the unibrow and everything is evident, because I never feel like I look like myself in pictures where they use so much contrast or glare that you can’t see any of that.

Each new piece of identification and paperwork and cards and stuff that I get makes me happier.  I think that means that Amelia Evelyn Voicy Baggs is the right name.  (Mel, of course, being my “real” first name.  Amelia is for paperwork and camouflage.  But as female-sounding names go, I like Amelia, and I like what it does to my signature.)

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  1. fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton said: Yay!
  2. callmemonstrous said: im so happy for you!!
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