Nov 02, 2005 23:01
Seriously, am I too deep or too vain? I've been thinking that after my father dies - WHEN my father dies A LONG, LONG, LONG, LOOOOONG time from now, I am going to change my last name. No offense to him, but my brother did a great job of being the nice little hetero normie that he is by procreating yet another Klimis male, and he even shares my father's first name too. So it's like, that base is totally covered. But my grandfather on my mother's side, he wasn't granted the same luxury. See, his brother never had kids and his only son wasn't able to rub out any boyz, only girlz. So I'm not totally sure, but I think the last name "Alesafis" is about to die out, at least here in America. So, I would become Michael Alesafis. But here's the thing see, Michael Alesafis is the name of my uncle (my grandfather's son/mom's brother). And he is a complete bastard. It's bad enough that we share the same first name. But when my grandfather came to America, the then crude and cruel immigration officers couldn't understand his last name, but said it kind of sounded like "Savage" and they said since he looked like a savage coming off the boat and all, then that should be his last name. So that was his American last name. I remember when I was a kid, sometimes his mail would be addressed to him that way. Anyway, if I changed my last name to that, then I would be Michael Savage or Mike Savage. Interestingly enough, when I was in high school I knew a guy that I was kinda sorta friends w/ named Mike Savage. So that's kind of wierd. I don't want people I knew from high school thinking that I worshipped him or something. And then I would have to explain the whole "carrying on grandpa's name" thing and yada yada yada. So then the next option would be to change my first name as well, and aptly it would have to be my grandfather's first name, George. George Savage. Sounds good huh? Well that would work if only my own brother's name wasn't George. I suppose a family could have two siblings with the same first name, but seriously, come on. It's not like our father is George Foreman. This isn't working out. I'll have to re-divide my thoughts and think this through a little better. Maybe I'll just change my last name to Kaye. Then I'll be Michael Kaye, like Elijah Wood in "Avalon". See, in that movie though, they changed their last names intentionally to assimilate into American culture. Nah. That won't work.