what's in a name?
It's really nice to have a new beginning - the amount of disorganized tags was killing me - and I can't thank miyabee enough for giving me a permanent account. It's going to be weird not having my old layout scheme, and I'm aware I can change back to it whenever, but it's nice to change things up a bit. I've already changed so much in the past few months alone, so I'd like to continue welcoming in the new.
Mostly doing this for my own sake, because I feel geeky right now.
Kind of funny that I talk about "welcoming in the new" when I go back to the same name I've always had though, isn't it? This was the name I took when I first signed up at LJ in summer 2003. "Wapiko" had been my online handle for a couple years at that point. Several months later, for some flighty reason I'm sure, I decided to try out a new handle and go by "Kiyomi," after a favorite movie character of mine. I bought a rename token (must have had a paid account) and opted for the "wapiko" account to be purged because I was paranoid others would find me (clearly I no longer care) - there was actually a time when Googling "wapiko" brought up more results having to do with me than the actual anime character I adopted it from. I stayed Kiyomi, at least on LJ, for a couple of years before moving to Greatest Journal in early 2005, and remained there exckusively until summer 2005, shortly before my senior year of high school began. That was when I took on the name "58468-0," or more accurately "58468/0," which is the title of a song by HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT, a Japanese metal band I used to love. Having an obscure name was fun. If asked what the numbers meant I told, but what really made me happy was the handful of times I had somebody in another community recognize the numbers.
Come to think of it, I have no idea if there's any significance in those numbers. (o_o)'' I haven't kept up with HPP in years, either.
I'd been using 58468/0 for nearly six years, which is pretty amazing given my track record of fickleness - I must have changed AIM names 15 times during high school before keeping "melting holidays." (And now I can't even use AIM, what with my dorm's necessary internet proxies.) Sometimes I'd want to change it back to "wapiko," and that was when I discovered you could only take back deleted names with a rename token. I considered buying a rename token but thought it to be a waste with a free account, so I just continued using the same as ever and hoped nobody else would purchase it. I go by this name pretty much everywhere online (my Japanese cellphone email is even wapiko@#####, for example XD), and the one time I signed up at a popular Japanese media tracker as "Amanda" has proven itself to be a miss. Somebody else took the name "wapiko" and ever since then, I've had people thanking me for uploading albums by artists I don't even listen to, like globe and move. LOL~ I wonder what sort of emails/messages the guy who signed up with "wapiko" has gotten.
Recently, MiYu offered me a permanent account she had ownership of. I gladly took it, even if LJ's been having problems up the wazoo thanks to the DDoS attacks. I had LJ gift certificates left over from when they used to offer PeanutLab surveys, as well as some credit in my Paypal account, so my rename token was virtually free and here I am "wapiko" once again \:D/ It's okay that I've now become potentially easy to find - if I want something kept secret, it'll get locked or written down somewhere entirely different. Over the years I've become a fairly "heart on my sleeve" type person, at least with those I'm close to, and I don't like lying or even omitting the truth to anyone. I have a really hard time turning down people when I don't want to do something - I can never come up with an excuse on the spot! And trying to say "no, I don't feel like it" ends up in them trying to pressure me (-_-);;
Suppose it's about dinner time. :D What to fix~
Mostly doing this for my own sake, because I feel geeky right now.
Kind of funny that I talk about "welcoming in the new" when I go back to the same name I've always had though, isn't it? This was the name I took when I first signed up at LJ in summer 2003. "Wapiko" had been my online handle for a couple years at that point. Several months later, for some flighty reason I'm sure, I decided to try out a new handle and go by "Kiyomi," after a favorite movie character of mine. I bought a rename token (must have had a paid account) and opted for the "wapiko" account to be purged because I was paranoid others would find me (clearly I no longer care) - there was actually a time when Googling "wapiko" brought up more results having to do with me than the actual anime character I adopted it from. I stayed Kiyomi, at least on LJ, for a couple of years before moving to Greatest Journal in early 2005, and remained there exckusively until summer 2005, shortly before my senior year of high school began. That was when I took on the name "58468-0," or more accurately "58468/0," which is the title of a song by HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT, a Japanese metal band I used to love. Having an obscure name was fun. If asked what the numbers meant I told, but what really made me happy was the handful of times I had somebody in another community recognize the numbers.
Come to think of it, I have no idea if there's any significance in those numbers. (o_o)'' I haven't kept up with HPP in years, either.
I'd been using 58468/0 for nearly six years, which is pretty amazing given my track record of fickleness - I must have changed AIM names 15 times during high school before keeping "melting holidays." (And now I can't even use AIM, what with my dorm's necessary internet proxies.) Sometimes I'd want to change it back to "wapiko," and that was when I discovered you could only take back deleted names with a rename token. I considered buying a rename token but thought it to be a waste with a free account, so I just continued using the same as ever and hoped nobody else would purchase it. I go by this name pretty much everywhere online (my Japanese cellphone email is even wapiko@#####, for example XD), and the one time I signed up at a popular Japanese media tracker as "Amanda" has proven itself to be a miss. Somebody else took the name "wapiko" and ever since then, I've had people thanking me for uploading albums by artists I don't even listen to, like globe and move. LOL~ I wonder what sort of emails/messages the guy who signed up with "wapiko" has gotten.
Recently, MiYu offered me a permanent account she had ownership of. I gladly took it, even if LJ's been having problems up the wazoo thanks to the DDoS attacks. I had LJ gift certificates left over from when they used to offer PeanutLab surveys, as well as some credit in my Paypal account, so my rename token was virtually free and here I am "wapiko" once again \:D/ It's okay that I've now become potentially easy to find - if I want something kept secret, it'll get locked or written down somewhere entirely different. Over the years I've become a fairly "heart on my sleeve" type person, at least with those I'm close to, and I don't like lying or even omitting the truth to anyone. I have a really hard time turning down people when I don't want to do something - I can never come up with an excuse on the spot! And trying to say "no, I don't feel like it" ends up in them trying to pressure me (-_-);;
Suppose it's about dinner time. :D What to fix~