God help me...

[chanaleh]

I sent in my Arisia reg today, for me and Matthew. (He specifically asked if he could come along. Aww. :-)

But that's not the part that scares me. It's that, for my badge name -- rather than the straight-up "Erica" I've always had -- I bit the bullet and put "chanaleh@livejournal".

(So what, you ask? It's WAY FRICKIN' GEEKIER to use a badge name that isn't your given name, that's what! I am appalled by what this impulse says about how far I have traveled down this shadowy path. Since this is my sixth or seventh con already, I should just come to terms with it, but it's going to take me a couple extra minutes. :-)

Comments

WAY FRICKIN' GEEKIER

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

It took me a minute to realize that this was what scared you, not just why you did it.

Re: WAY FRICKIN' GEEKIER

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ah, apparently I failed to strike the proper tone of desperation. :-) I'll edit slightly.

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

GEEEEEEK!!!

heh

[cthulhia]

i still get people who will look at my badge (eventually) and say "O... you are cthulhia. I've seen you online."

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Really, shouldn't that have been:

<LJ User="chanaleh">

?

[skreeky]

Bwa! And *I* have gotten *less* geeky over the years. I mock you! My first badge name, I was waffling between my email addy and my MU* character. Ha!

[cos]

cos on LJ, cos on IRC, cos in person, cos at work... cos on my Arisia badge. Nobody will know how geeky I am. Oh, nevermind. :)

[goljerp]

Yeah, but I still think of you as [your real name] - as well as cos.

[krikket.livejournal.com]

(Chortle)

[cellio]

Geekdom claims one more. :-)