Hello everybody,  
   
 I was thinking today about how much of our chosen names we internalize. I readily answer to Katherine, Kate, Katie and Kat. In fact, even Kutie Katie from one suitor. I spent this evening at BAM attending the benefit concert for Kate McGarrigle being thrown by her kids, Rufus and Martha Wainwright along with Norah Jones and others. Kate died from Sarcoma and there is now a foundation raising money for researching that specific type of cancer. It's hardly as if I feel weird when hearing news of the famous pregnant Kate. Or perhaps I'm being morbid, connecting to it in a field of cancerous talk when I dealt with a loved one's cancer this spring. It was completely and utterly odd to keep hearing all these things regarding "Kate's" cancer and death.  
   
 How about you all? Are there times when you are "you" but something keeps pushing the hobby you into your current consciousness? This is obviously for the girls as we all have a second persona. However, I know that many of you guys also have hobby names that you use, so please feel free to chime in. Open discussion on what our names mean to us. Perhaps they are even more important to our identity than our given names, being that we choose them ourselves?  
   
 Kiss me,  
   
 Kate  
   
 PS I will have NO ACCESS to any internet or email whatsoever until next week. I'm really looking forward to reading your answers then, but I cannot respond to anything at all these next 5/6 days.  
   
 PPS We can have fun here! I didn't mean to get all deep and philosophical about our names, though my writing comes off as more serious than I intended.

Hello everybody,  
   
 I was thinking today about how much of our chosen names we internalize. I readily answer to Katherine, Kate, Katie and Kat. In fact, even Kutie Katie from one suitor. I spent this evening at BAM attending the benefit concert for Kate McGarrigle being thrown by her kids, Rufus and Martha Wainwright along with Norah Jones and others. Kate died from Sarcoma and there is now a foundation raising money for researching that specific type of cancer. It's hardly as if I feel weird when hearing news of the famous pregnant Kate. Or perhaps I'm being morbid, connecting to it in a field of cancerous talk when I dealt with a loved one's cancer this spring. It was completely and utterly odd to keep hearing all these things regarding "Kate's" cancer and death.  
   
 How about you all? Are there times when you are "you" but something keeps pushing the hobby you into your current consciousness? This is obviously for the girls as we all have a second persona. However, I know that many of you guys also have hobby names that you use, so please feel free to chime in. Open discussion on what our names mean to us. Perhaps they are even more important to our identity than our given names, being that we choose them ourselves?  
   
 Kiss me,  
   
 Kate  
   
 PS I will have NO ACCESS to any internet or email whatsoever until next week. I'm really looking forward to reading your answers then, but I cannot respond to anything at all these next 5/6 days.  
   
 PPS We can have fun here! I didn't mean to get all deep and philosophical about our names, though my writing comes off as more serious than I intended.