The made-up name is the brand. I think it's weird to refer to someone as their brand when they are working or discussing the person. Did Lady Gaga get a chance to eat her lunch yet OR did Stefani get a chance to eat yet? Outside of a marketing scenario, it seems dehumanizing to me.

There was a movie filming in NYC, and the trailers were outside my office at the time. I could hear them referring to Jennifer Lopez as "J-Lo" and I thought that was weird. She's their colleague.

There is someone in the LegalTech space who is quite popular and does this on the regular. I noticed he posted a watered-down version of my posts all the time. I blocked him. No free material, buddy!

We have one (husband's car). It's older, paid off, and are not in a position to buy a new car rn but uggghhhh. Yes.

Mine stopped being able to function at school, total burnout, and then the pediatrician was like oh yeah. I get it now. It is so hard to find reliable guidance, especially when in some ways it's less obvious. (PDA profile)

Info dumping all around lol.

I'm so sorry you are sick! My son had something similar. Super high fever, sore throat. I thought strep for sure, nope. The respiratory symptoms followed a couple of days later. Not flu, either.