Wait, don’t freak out. My nickname is now pleia2 on xelium now (where #13thHour is).
I’ve always been pretty against nickname changes in IRC, I’ve known too many people who come in with a new nickname every 12 months (or less!) and wonder why people don’t know who they are. One of the former opers on xelium changed her nickname weekly, so we kept thinking she had added another oper when it was just her (and got confused when she DID add another oper…). I never wanted to be difficult to find by people who wanted to find me, and I never wanted to confuse them. So I kept with the same nickname I started using back in 1998 when I first joined scifi, PrincessLeia2. Back in 2002 when I joined freenode I decided to join up as ‘pleia2’ (which has been my yahoo email name since 1999, and was always my alternate irc nickname) because by then I had sort of felt I had grown out of the ‘PrincessLeia2’ nickname, people just assume you’re young if you clearly have “Princess” in your nickname. So, whenever I joined new public servers I’d be ‘pleia2’
I realized the other day that xelium was really the only server left that i was PrincessLeia2 on, so I changed it.
I don’t feel bad about it, like I’m abandoning my principles against nickname changes, because this is just a shortened version of something that was too long. And most people are taking it well, I think a majority of #13thHour people are aware that I used pleia2 as an alternate nickname anyway, and it doesn’t take much detective work to figure out who I am.
Hah, writing a whole journal entry about a simple, subtle nickname change.
We went to the movies last night with mct and Nita, saw Jersey Girl (Kevin Smith’s new movie). Now I can’t really tell if I liked it or not, Kevin Smith movies are on a whole different plain of movies so I can’t view it through a critic’s eyes. It was like the sappy bits of Chasing Amy stretched out a lot, and it made you want to cry every 20 minutes or so. Rar! It entertained me though, and didn’t bother me, so while it’s definately not hitting my favorites list, I don’t feel like I wasted my time. Besides, I haven’t actually paid to see a movie in a movie theater since November (oh I love the internet), it was fun to go out.
Now I must start my day. *wanders off*