Lolo (snowkissed) wrote, @ 2009-06-22 15:03:00

Current mood:	working
Current music:	Beauty in Walking Away - Marie Digby

♠ there's a lifetime
I find it interesting how people sign off their emails. I'm not referring to the faithfully/sincerely/couldn't-careless-ly ending to an email. I'm talking about the names.

And I find the shorter you make your name, the more power you hold. (Or the more familiar, but then if you're famous enough then it's the same thing as familiarity.) I sign off with my name.

I got a forwarded email from my colleague, signed off by an editor colleague with just an initial: L. The man has enough presence that it blocked off any attempts by my brain to associate the alphabet with the eyeliner-crazed Japanese manga sleuth by the (sort of) same name. I guessed it was him. It was. It also reminded me of how my old fashion director used to sign off as B. Sometimes in lower case. (Maybe she was feeling mellow that day.)

Using only your initial seems to indicate that no one else is going to assume you're another B or another L. I sign off as Charmian cos if I had the balls to sign off as C, I could be presuming to be on the same level as our group editor Corinne. She's the boss. She wins the name game. Ironic considering one alphabet barely constitutes a person's identity.

Ah, the weight of one. Ok, time to stop useless musing and get back to work!