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Day 240: meaning of my name
Jul. 21st, 2012 06:09 pmThe urban dictionary definition I knew about was the Pokémon (it is weak and only has the teleport power, but is hard to catch) -- because a student gave me that Pokémon card my first or second year of teaching. And my brother-in-law's nephew (I guess he's sort of my nephew?) gave me the actual plastic figurine. It's vaguely catlike, which is cool.
The real meaning of my name is the feminine version of a major Biblical or Torah name -- in that sense it sort of means "mother of multitudes" which is not exactly the case for me. My father chose my name after seeing James Dean and Julie Harris in East of Eden, though he'd liked the name since he met a granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller's with this name, as a kid in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
I like my name a lot, though I briefly (around age 10) went through a spell when I got tired of the jokes made around it. I thought about going to my middle name, Elizabeth, but got stubborn instead and stayed with my own first name.
By the way -- not at all by the way, in fact -- I got a kitten today, pending tomorrow morning's vet appointment. I can't keep her (I think it's a her) if she's got FeLV or FIV. But otherwise, I hope Maya can get used to the idea of another female cat. Kitten. Here's a picture of her:
The real meaning of my name is the feminine version of a major Biblical or Torah name -- in that sense it sort of means "mother of multitudes" which is not exactly the case for me. My father chose my name after seeing James Dean and Julie Harris in East of Eden, though he'd liked the name since he met a granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller's with this name, as a kid in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
I like my name a lot, though I briefly (around age 10) went through a spell when I got tired of the jokes made around it. I thought about going to my middle name, Elizabeth, but got stubborn instead and stayed with my own first name.
By the way -- not at all by the way, in fact -- I got a kitten today, pending tomorrow morning's vet appointment. I can't keep her (I think it's a her) if she's got FeLV or FIV. But otherwise, I hope Maya can get used to the idea of another female cat. Kitten. Here's a picture of her:
