I’ve been toying with changing things since the first of the year, starting with my user name over at OtakuBoards. But change is something that is easy to resist, especially when you’ve had that user name for almost three years and liked it. I’ve been using indifference for quite a while and had grown comfortable with it. However, some recent conversations changes all that, literally.
It started Tuesday night when I was chatting on AIM with Beth (SunfallE) and she posted on her world about it being Adam’s and James’ birthday on Wednesday. Now based on her post I figured she was still talking with other staff members so I shot off a request for her to pass on Birthday wishes to Adam since getting them in a more live form is fun, like James, I caught him on AIM and told him directly.
Anyway, that lead to Adam adding my name and IMing me back with a thanks and a birthday request that I change my AIM name indifferencecry to that of indifferenceLOL or indifferenceHI. Now I tried playing with AIM, but unless I missed it somehow, you can’t really change it like that without creating a new one. I tried to find a means but didn’t. But that’s not what prompted the change, the one I was already considering for the past four months but just kept resisting.
Oh no… it was when he realized that the “cry” at the end if the AIM name is the first three letters of my name Crystia and not the emotion cry. I think Beth told him, I’m not sure. But what had me going O_O in that conversation is he thought it meant something like “this poor emo girl” Now let me tell you… that was a total what the hell? moment, even if he was kidding. Now that led to me creating a new AIM account that was more normal and was as he put it “No more poor little emo girl!”
Now after that the conversation just went into random stuff about dogs and fat cats of all things. But then most AIM conversations can be pretty random and insane as anyone will tell you. However, that “emo” impression kept floating in the back of my mind and later that day after I had slept, I started noticing emo quiz ads and such around the site. Now I’m sure they’ve been there before, but I just never noticed them.
Naturally I had to ask others I know online about the impression and I got the same answer that my AIM handle gave that impression, especially when you consider that my hotmail handle is cold_indifference_cold. Something that Allamorph pointed out when I was chatting to him via AIM last night. O_O At that point… I was sunk and that urge I had from the beginning of the year to change only became clearer, it was going to happen.
So, from this point forward on AIM you will find me using Crystia B and my MSN handle is now Crystia@live.com I have already retired my old AIM name and as soon as I finish changing my e-mail for different sites, the old hotmail will vanish as well. To top that off my user name at OtakuBoards is now Indi. I requested the change and Dessy has already taken care of it.
Also, because I know that imp will say something if I don’t, the new user name is Allamorph’s fault. I was thinking of Crystia since it’s my real name, but he suggested last night that I go with Indi since it’s a nickname I was given over at OtakuBoards; by him no less. XP One that has found its way into real life as some of my friends here who are also members of OtakuBoards have actually called me that instead of my given name.
So, now that I’ve been longwinded here, I’ll just close with this… one of the best parts of the entire affair? Adam got officially added to my list of online people I stalk. I already did, but nothing like telling the person in question… I added you to my list of people to stalk! After Des of course, he’ll always be first on my list. :p