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julietsierra -> RE: **Names??** (5/1/2007 5:28:06 PM)
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I began in all this online, hence I needed a screen name. I have no idea what I chose, but along the way, someone suggested the one I have now and it worked. There was nothing particularly romantic about the choosing. It just fit me.
And this is how it fit:
1) juliet and sierra are the phonetic alphabet initials for my first and last name.
2) I grew up boating on the Great Lakes at a time when, to have a ship-to-shore radio, you had to register the radio, receive and identify yourself by the call letters every time you used the radio, so we learned the phonetic alphabet in conjunction with the regular alphabet.
3) I love Shakespeare and my favorite play is Romeo and Juliet. Coincidentally, my Master's first name begins with an R. So when I get the silly questions of "who is your Master" when online, I can just say "Romeo."
3) I love the out of doors and when I think of the out of doors, one of the first things that comes to mind is the Sierra Club. I have absolutely no idea why since I don't live anywhere near the sierra mountains, but it does.
4) I have spent hours and hours of my life growing up watching submarine movies and the juliet and sierra are both submarines. I go to the water like other people go to the mountains for peace and solitude. I am a sub. I love all things marine... I am a sub-marine - just not the kind that goes off to war.
Virtually everyone that knows me in real life knows me as juliet. This is the case for a lot of reasons. Amongst them are the fact that someone I know had someone else that was able to figure out where she lived and ended up with a stalker because the guy was able to figure things out from her real name. I learned from what she went through and from that point on, only used my screen name out in public. My given name is relatively uniquely spelled and pretty easily found. I had no desire to go down her path.
Another fact is, as someone already suggested, that I have a career that is comprised of many inquisitive minds and I wanted to steer clear of those lovely little things and the problems they could cause if they found out what I do just because I used my given name.
Yet another fact is that I can keep the acquaintances I know in one given situation separate from acquaintances in another situation. Even if I don't remember their names, if they use my screen name, I know exactly where I know them from - or at least the point of reference for them knowing that name.
Finally, by using my screen name in public, my given name is kept for those I am close to. If you know my given name, you are someone I care deeply about. The nice thing about this is that whenever my Master uses my name, he uses my given name and for me, silly though it may be, I have never heard a sweeter sound than when he uses that name for me. To me, him saying my name is like a kiss. My heart beats faster, and I am thrilled.
After 8 years, it's gotten to the point where I answer as easily to juliet as I do to my given name and I like that very much.
juliet
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