I went to the john green reading in munich and it was lovely but that’s not really the point of this post
when I went to get my book signed I said my name and spelled it and because I am a bad conversationalist I told the story (it’s not a story, I just like calling everything I say a story because that is my life decision) of how someone wrote my name neena instead of nina which is weird to me because I have the easiest name to spell. and after that I mostly thought about two things which were 1) why do I have to be so boring, though this part is a given because that’s what I think after almost anything I say ever, and 2) it’s really interesting how we identify with our names. I remember when I was younger how I never really felt like a nina and wanted to change it to something else but for the past couple of years I’ve been trying to embrace it, sometimes by thinking about myself in the third person and just using my name as often as I can and now I feel like I can finally identify as nina? which is nice because that’s one personality crisis fixed
also, john said he likes my hair