Words are meaningless and forgettable

[geminigirl]

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.

Comments

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

I sort of went through this transition during LJ. I had been using Danger Girl a lot, but that name was taken, so I went to danger_chick. I also used to use alekq everywhere, but now it is usually taken so do aquinine.

[vix.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love EGG! So cute.

I had a sassy reply all prepared in which I would say something like "You should just bite the bullet and pick <insert emo rock band name here with numbers> once and for all!" but I couldn't think of what an emo rock band name is. God.

[geminigirl]

Ahhh...numbers. I hate numbers in usernames. I don't think I've ever had a username with numbers.

[sweet-tea79.livejournal.com]

I hate numbers in user names, too. The only reason they're in mine is b/c every version of Sweet Tea that I could think of had been taken. So now everyone knows that year I was born in. Woo.

Personally, I like EGG. Then again, my initials spell a word, too, and while it isn't nearly as cute as Egg, I'm still biased.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I've been having this struggle for years now.

If I'd created a journal two weeks earlier, I'd have gotten ocelot. Instead it was taken by some loser who posted 3 entries, two of them duplicates. Grr.