Comments | lordandrei: You mean you haven't always been an Andrei?

lordandrei

You mean you haven't always been an Andrei?

Oct 27, 2005 14:41

With rarer occasion this topic comes up. I thought it might be best to summarize the history on this transition in my life in one place that I can access through the live journal memories.

( Why, no.. I have not always been an Andrei )

memories, name, origins

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fiannaharpar October 27 2005, 21:57:45 UTC

It's odd, i've known you for so long that when I was really upset, I used your old name. I felt bad about it for a while afterwards.

Adam is not a bad middle name..at least it's not Adolph..

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tzaddi_93 October 27 2005, 22:25:05 UTC

lordandrei, have you considered a career as a stand-up comedian?

I have in fact been asked that on more than one occassion... lordandrei October 27 2005, 22:50:22 UTC

Unfortunately, it tends to all just come out when I don't plan it. Much like a bad sneeze when a tissue is not around. (suddenly I'm finding my comedy grosser than it actually is)

I'm really not quite sure how to go about arranging it all.

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I haven't always been a Brandy, either brandywilliams October 28 2005, 06:29:18 UTC

Shockingly enough. Most Brandys are about ten years my junior. I love having changed my name legally and having it on my passport. All my books are in that name too which also helps.

queenofhalves October 28 2005, 14:10:17 UTC

chosen names are a good thing.

i am still waiting for a magickal name to come to me. so far, it hasn't. i hope i'll know it when i hear it.

jackal_child October 29 2005, 07:24:04 UTC

It may not be *a* magickal name. Be open to the possibility of more than one, rather than being amongst those who change them every other month. I have at least 2-3 and another, Draco, that I use as a pen name for my art and have used for about 10 years. That was a chosen name. When I found one of my names I use for other applications, it was over a period of about/over 10 years. It started as one thing and evolved through similar variations, kind of like in movies where a character zones out and another character is calling their name, and they don't hear it, but as the third party viewer, you hear the sound effects of the name coming from a muddled noise, becoming clearer til you hear the name and the character snaps out of it. It was about 2 years ago when the name sounded itself clearly to me. Another is what I call one of my muses, Jackal, and has since attached itself to me like an attention-deprived cat . That was a development over a year. The others haven't really sat as still and some are variations of that first name. The ( ... )

queenofhalves October 29 2005, 15:26:02 UTC

thanks! that's good advice.

i actually do have a pen name that i'm very happy with. still waiting for something people can call me in circle, though. and i've been at this for the better part of ten years -- it's not like i haven't given it thought! :>

i just keep hoping the gods will clock me with it. at least i'd be sure it was the right one.

jackal_child October 31 2005, 21:52:40 UTC

Hrm. Not always. Sometimes you have to ask very specifically. Some gods may be a little more direct, but mine certainly aren't amongst those. I think Kali may have been doing a vague equivalent to someone sitting a couple tables away from me in a bustling restaurant, harumphing at me for my attention and has periodically taken to throwing metaphorical peas or something across the tables at me, but I'm still trying to figure out what she's at and what she's trying to get through to me. I think it might be a positive thing tho, since, I think my muses may have been from her. Still, the visual of Kali in a restaurant, throwing peas at me is amusing. *lol*

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