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pink lady blog

so liz just suggested I name my blog "Pink Lady blog" and I would like to
share the story behind that suggestion, because, well, i'm supposed to
currently be reading something really really boring.

back in college and high school, when i visited japan, took a japanese
class, etc., people would always think my name was "lady" (for obvious
reasons). At first I used to try to explain no no it's an RRR. but at some
point i just gave up because, really, it doesn't matter, they can't hear the
difference, and people always thought it was cute. because they knew that
word and it was a cute word or whatever.

interestingly, i never get "lady" here, people think "ready" or "brady" or
"grady" but never lady. hmmm.

anyway at some point I had a teaching assistant who would hand out our
papers in class by calling out our names (last name, first name--just like
they do in japan). I never thought anything of it because my name sounds
kind of weird when pronounced in "japanese" anyway. until one day I looked
where she had written my name on something: "Pink Lady".

she was always telling me how cute my name was, and this is why.