I have a new nickname...

and I'm really excited about it. I have had very few nicknames over the years and generally don't like them. My all time least favorite is Cathy. I've calmed down as I've gotten older, but when I was a kid, I would actually correct people and tell them that wasn't my name. I find it kind of presumptuous to just give someone a nickname without asking what they think about it. The exceptions to the nickname dislike are Catareene (this is what my brother calls me and sometimes get modified to all kinds of things), Cath (I accept that one but still prefer Catherine), CJ (Annette started that one and people at work started calling me that too sometimes. I like that one ok), and now Cathou (which with the French pronunciation sounds like kazoo but with a T).

Perhaps the best part of the nickname is that it makes me feel more like a part of Julie's friends. I spend most of the day with them yesterday, and it was a lot of fun. The down side of drinking wine all day and night is that I was not productive at all today. This seems to be a common theme lately. I really am looking forward to having a regular schedule again. I am not seeming to be self-disciplined enough to handle setting my own schedule.