name meme

If you call me Rachel, you're not paying attention.

If you call me Rach, you're pretty much everyone.

If you call me RM (and I mean this conversationally, not in LJ land) you either don't know me very well, or know me very well and are messing with me.

If you call me Rae, you knew me for like a week my sophomore year of college.

If you call me Lane, you knew me on my college newspaper.

If you call me Rachie, you're my mother.

If you call me Herschel, you're also my mother, but even more inexplicable.

If you call me Diamond, you're one of my sorority sisters.

If you call me something that's not on this list, chances are you need to change that habit.

interesting/lame/horrifying

interesting: Julie Taymor will be directing Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera. There's a ticket I must have.

lame: Mary Louise Parker is going to be staring in some movie musical romantic comedy thing that will have all the actors lipsynching -- what's the bloody point then?

horrifying: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/18/1079199336533.html (Yes, yes, only I would bump into news about Tennessee in an Australian paper and then make you all read it).