Where'd you get your user name?

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I woke up today and thought it was the 23rd. Yes, I was excited about Mole Day. I was prepared to celebrate celebrate things like Avogadro and stoichiometry. Now all I have to be happy about is avocados and Elvis Stojko.

Today I enjoyed this post (scroll to the end), in which yhlee lists reasons why she loves BtVS/AtS characters. One of them is, "Why I love Angelus: it may never occur to him that in all the ways he destroys people it shows how strong they really are." Go read and miss your shows. *sniff*

Lastly, stultiloquentia and I recently discovered that we'd spoken online four years before under different names. That made me wish I hadn't changed my nickname things so much out of sheer boredom. The user name tkp is from the Kora Personality, which wouldn't fit on lj. Kora is another name for Persephone. I was having some twisted, uninteresting thoughts about the woman who spent half her time being queen of the dead and raped by the damned, and the other half frolicking in the flowers with Mama and nymphs. Anyway, I'm guessing this has been a topic of conversation before, so sorry if you've been over it before, but I've been wondering:

Where'd you get your user name?

Even if it seems obvious, I'd love to know. Also: why Joan?

Comments

[semby.livejournal.com]

"Semby" is something like "Joan", as it often makes me go "and why did I pick that again?" because it really has no meaning or significance to my life in any form. I've occasionally tried to think up some sort of meaning "well, I have an S and an E and an M all at some point in my full name..." just in case someone ever asked ;) rather than outing myself as a weirdo who makes up strange names, but that would be a lie because it really was a random thing. Plus I get stumped at B.

I just wanted something short and easy to say/spell/remember that probably wouldn't get confused with anyone else's. And yet still I've had people mispell it...

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I like "Semby". I've often wanted to ask you where you got it from. I like it because, as you say, it's short and simple. But also, it's unusual enough that people probably won't also think it's your name. (I don't like that, because if you ever meet people you know online, they're are all like: what, your name really isn't ____?)