New Name
2007-10-19, 1:02 p.m.

I’m once again thinking of a new online identity. Oh, femme-inine is fine, I guess. It’s just that I’m thinking of leaving diaryland and I want to think of something that suits me. I used nimiiwin for years but it no longer seems like a good fit.

I am not solely a lesbian for pity’s sake – that’s not even what I would consider a defining characteristic of me. But I can’t exactly call myself “SmartMouth.” Well, I could but I’m sure there are many of us out there. Ditto: wiseass. My dad often calls me “candy ass” since I can no longer lift heavy things but do I want to be known as “candy ass”? I think no.

Who do I want to be? I like a consistent name because it’s easier to remember. It was so much easier when all my user names were Nimiiwin and all my passwords the same. I mean, really, how many nimiiwins could there be?

Here are some of the things I’ve considered:

• Cosmo Femme (but again with the lesbian bit.) – as I wrote in my “myspace” profile, I learned to be femme from Helen Gurley Brown and Cosmo. Ironic, no?
• Bailando Blanca (loosely translated as “dancing white girl” which is funny – to me – because a) I started out majoring in Spanish in college, I chose “Blanca” as my name in Spanish because it is the feminine form of the color white and I was often the only “white girl” in any given situation and “bailando” means dancing. Nimiiwin means dancing. It brings it all together. Now if I could only find out the Spanish word for “femme” I could wrap ‘em all together and there we are.)
• GourmetReader – which is what I use on Shelfari but then it sounds like I read intellectual things and I’m more drawn to your basic vampire murder mystery these days. And if it were my blog title, people would expect food and/or books and I’m not going to be writing much about either of those things. I *have* a book blog and it’s dead boring because I basically just write a bit about each book so that I can keep track of what I’ve read.
• Joy Edward. Because if I ever write a book, that’ll be my pen name.
• There’s always my given name but then I’m too easily found if someone googles me. I don’t necessarily need stealth-level privacy but would prefer to keep the crazies at bay. Sometimes I write *personal* stuff and I do not want my former friend EAH to find me and I know she googles me. I know how she is, the heifer.
• To be funny, I suggested Kir Royale as it’s my favorite drink. My friend JV looked at me as if I were completely ghetto-fabulous, so I discarded that one.
• Sometimes I think “GirlWithADD” but then, people would expect ADD writing. I write like a girl with ADD but do not write about ADD. Plus, at 40, can I really be called a “girl”?
• My sister suggested “Curses Like a Sailor” since she is pretty sure that it is entirely MY fault that my niece, at age 2, said “Oh, Shit, Macy!” Which is a total fabrication since I hate that word. Had she said “Oh, fuck, Macy!” it probably would have been my fault.
• Dichotomy. Because I say to love me is to love dichotomy. Or perhaps …
• Dichotomous Nature. Oooh, I like that one.