I made it into the Social Security Office today! (Thanks to all those who confirmed for me that it wasn't inside Applebee's.) Changing my name there took so little time that I also made it to the bank and called my auto insurance, my retirement fund, the PA dept. of ed. and grad school about what I need to do for them. Moral of the story: If you have the flexibility to take a day off work so that you can do things on certain important agencies watch, changing your name is very easy

Yay for being a married lady.