Obligatory Explination RE: Username Change
Welcome to the LJ formerly known as MemorieLane1980 :)
If anyone is even remotely curious about the rather annoying username change, the short answer is simply this -- for me, it's symbolic. The extended version of the above answer is as follows, should you care. Cannot say I blame you if you don't.
The name itself is not what's symbolic. Several years back, this was my main screen name on AOL, and I've always had a certain strange fondness for it, even though it probably doesn't make much sense... one of those phrases I came up with in a fit of lunacy, or a hiccup from my goth days. *reminisces fondly* Either way, about a year or two after it's conception, there was a major, earth shattering, mind numbing change in my life. The change itself was not catastrophic, yet it basically precipitated what amounted to my life turning upside down. There was also more than a little depression involved; have always had a bipolar personality, so this only exasperated things.
If it's possible for a person to loose themselves, that is exactly what happened, until I had an epiphany about seven years later (April '09), and finally emerged from the fog. Arthur Conan Doyle doesn't realize this, but he inadvertantly saved the life of a very lost person some 122 years after publishing the tales of a certain consulting detective we all know and love :)
Anyways, I've been making sweeping changes in my life, and figured it didn't seem like those changes would be complete unless I applied it to everything. So, the old LJ username had to go. I would have invented a new one, but that old AOL screen name represented a point in my life I would love to return to. Hence the symbolism, and now I've gone and bored to tears any poor soul who suffered through reading this... Though I do thank you for sticking with it & reading this journal...
ETA: This post has been giving me trouble with the cut, has disappeared on me twice, and I also seem to have locked it unintentionally *oops*
Fixed now... *kicks LJ*
If anyone is even remotely curious about the rather annoying username change, the short answer is simply this -- for me, it's symbolic. The extended version of the above answer is as follows, should you care. Cannot say I blame you if you don't.
The name itself is not what's symbolic. Several years back, this was my main screen name on AOL, and I've always had a certain strange fondness for it, even though it probably doesn't make much sense... one of those phrases I came up with in a fit of lunacy, or a hiccup from my goth days. *reminisces fondly* Either way, about a year or two after it's conception, there was a major, earth shattering, mind numbing change in my life. The change itself was not catastrophic, yet it basically precipitated what amounted to my life turning upside down. There was also more than a little depression involved; have always had a bipolar personality, so this only exasperated things.
If it's possible for a person to loose themselves, that is exactly what happened, until I had an epiphany about seven years later (April '09), and finally emerged from the fog. Arthur Conan Doyle doesn't realize this, but he inadvertantly saved the life of a very lost person some 122 years after publishing the tales of a certain consulting detective we all know and love :)
Anyways, I've been making sweeping changes in my life, and figured it didn't seem like those changes would be complete unless I applied it to everything. So, the old LJ username had to go. I would have invented a new one, but that old AOL screen name represented a point in my life I would love to return to. Hence the symbolism, and now I've gone and bored to tears any poor soul who suffered through reading this... Though I do thank you for sticking with it & reading this journal...
ETA: This post has been giving me trouble with the cut, has disappeared on me twice, and I also seem to have locked it unintentionally *oops*
Fixed now... *kicks LJ*