Renaming myself
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I've decided, after much thought and quite a bit of self-annoyance about the pretentiousness of it, to name myself Athena
, after the Hellenic goddess of wisdom. I did actively fight this name in multiple ways before eventually deciding to go with it.
My middle name is Lilith
, and Alexandra
is formally deprecated.
I'm not changing my legal name soon, and there's quite a bit out there that will need to be updated, but at least I've made a decision!
(One of the first things that needs to be updated is my PGP key - Git refuses to sign commits with a key that has a different name on it. Until I get that done my Git commits will still say Alex
.)
I am 99.7% confident that I will not be smited for hubris by using this name.
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