How do you go about dealing with your new name?

I opened joint bank accounts with J using my new name (his last name) but I still use my single name for work and office bank accounts.

I'm thinking to just use my single name for work, and my new name for legal documents. J doesn't really care.
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Which reminds me about a conversation (if you could call it that) between me and some manyakis fisherman while I was in HS.

My friends and I would go to Matabungkay Beach in Batangas a couple of times a year to sun ourselves, as my lola had a resthouse there. This was more than 10 years ago, and bikinis were not a common sight on the beach.

I had one friend, Jenny, who was fashion forward enough to wear a bikini while sunning herself on a balsa (large raft with a small shed on it). She lay on a bench while the balsa rocked about 30 meters off the beach.

She must have looked really attractive because while I was playing pusoy dos with my friends I suddenly noticed a banca circling the raft, with a bunch of snarky looking men paddling like idiots with their eyes popping out everytime they passed in front of Jenny

Mai: Oy! What the fuck are you doing?

Men: (ignore Mai)

Mai: (blood pressure rising) Oy! Tumigil na kayo (Stop it)!

Men: (ignore Mai, continue paddling and ogling)

Mai: (angry) Oy, mga Putangina nyo! Tigilan nyo na yan, mga manyak! Jenny! will you fucking sit up and close your goddam legs, theyre fucking feasting on you.

Jenny: (wakes up) Ack!

Mai: STTTTOOOOOOOOOPPPPP ITTTTT!

One of the Men: At bakit? Hindi kami aalis.

Mai: Get lost animals!

One of the Men: (belligerently) At bakit? Sino ka ba???

Mai: Ako....ako....ako si Mai MATABUNGKAY!!!!

side comment

Gaily (another friend): At ako naman si Gaily Resort.

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