geminigirl, posts by tag: vox - LiveJournal (original) (raw)

I'm still stumped on a Vox username.

My default name is 1. sort of taken and 2. might be kinda emo for me now, in my 30s, though when I adopted the moniker at 18. I know I'm kind of stuck with it; when you've been using the same name for this long, it kind of sticks, just like there are probably people who still associate me with the chicken .sig (which I won't link to because it includes my real name.)

I don't care for my username here on LJ; I chose it because my default online name was already taken on LJ...as were some of the other names that I thought of. I had no idea when I chose it that I'd still be using my LJ nearly five years later, or that I'd value and enjoy it the way I do. I don't want my realname on Vox or LJ.

I'm not the person I was when I adopted a particular .net name, and I hadn't thought much about outgrowing it when I did take it on, because in 1993, when I did, I just liked it, and it worked. And now, while it's sticking, I'm not sure it's where I want to go.

And perhaps I'm overthinking this name thing. But, growing up as EGG, you think a lot about names.

And maybe that's the name I should go with. Egg. Beginning, round, fragile. Fresh.

Tags: everyday life, lj brain trust, vox