The names, changin', etc.

[leahbobet]

After eight years, I decided maybe it wasn't the best idea anymore to have my professional journal named after the elf from that MUD I was playing when I was fourteen.*

Which is to say that this LJ has been renamed to better reflect my more boring, bespectacled, round-ears self. I do this with a bit of sadness**, since I still remember when merriehaskell was fairmer and cmpriest was wicked_wish. But it was kinda time.

The $15 I just paid LJ for the privilege should ensure that there's an automatic forward on links, but y'know. Adjust links accordingly etc. etc.

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And in other news, I know I owe you guys a couple Iron Chef Farmshare posts, and will be doing that tonight or tomorrow morning. Honest.


*True fact, that. Also, if anyone's looking for me under that name by now, they've been trying for a really long time and probably won't be by.

**Prufrockian sadness, even!

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the world of real-name-ness on lj.

Except, of course, when I made the switch, I was just switching veiled identities. ;)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

That is why you are a superspy and the rest of us mere document mules. ;)

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

All part of my master plan!

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

I always experience a moment of disorientation when someone on my f-list does an LJ name change. In some cases, I've known people by one name for going on nine years. Then, suddenly, they are someone else. There's no little notification from LJ saying "username so-and-so is changing to username such-and-such." The worst are the time when I miss the "this journal's name is changing" post entirely. I find myself staring at their new name thinking "who is this? what name do I know them by?" Sometimes it takes me just a moment for the old name to click, and sometimes I never seem to get it, and pretty soon I have this unfamiliar person on my f-list, and I have no idea where/when I know them from.

In any case, it's a bit easier with the authors I follow. Usually when they change their username, it's to something else I recognize them by. But still, I find myself reluctant to ever change my own username, if only because I have so often been confused by the same event from others.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's weird, and names have their own discrete footprints, which is part of why I held out so long (also, sheer laziness).

[delta-november.livejournal.com]

I had always wondered where the old name came from. (Though clearly not enough to just ask.) Was the -lia at the end supposed to sound like Leah, or was that a coincidence?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Coincidence. Chalk it all up to froofy 14-year-old unicorns and girliness.

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, I was sizztheseed for a long time online, and that was an epithet foisted on me at one time at the age of sixteen—due to an unfortunate mishap with a shampoo bottle, a latex tube, a pipe carved in the shape of a Bontoc shaman, and a very fresh bud of marijuana. But I did learn at the time that the etymological root of "nirvana" is equivalent to "cooling down", so it was not a total loss.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

She's still occasionally Mer to me and porphyrin. As in before-we-knew-how-it-was-pronounced-Mer.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I proudly remain the little bear, dammit. *g*