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dolariI'm prolly repeating myself, but it's my journal and that's my perogative. Robotech got me thinking....
So, if you could choose your own name, what would it be?
The only really good thing about my "condition" is that I got to pick my own name. I got think abotu this because over at http://venusenvy.keenspace.com , Zoe had her parents pick her female name. I had a few names...some which are pretty silly, and thankfully I got a hold of myself.
The Early Years
My first name was....don't laugh...Jacqueline (STOP LAUGHING YOU! DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE YOU! DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!) There was a reason I chose it. Over the summer, I'd read a collection of "Real Life True!" stories about as real as a three-dollar-bill. One of them was this COOL COOL story about a ghost possesing a man. however, the ghost was a woman, and was slowly trying to get him to become a female.
Naturally this caught my attention.
Anyways, the ghost renamed him Jacqueline. Hence the name. Thankfully that lasted all of a summer, and I was only thirteen at the time, so I can be allowed a little insanity,
Other names I thought of over time...
Kira - mainly because I loved the name hearing it first on the Dark Crystal. I thought about for a while, but the image I got from that name was a wispy waifish butterfly...and I was no wispy waifsh butterfly thingy.
The Robotech Years
Elizabeth - A very strong and yet very feminine character with Cinnamon Buns for hair.
Dana - A very strong and yet very flirty and occasionally bubbleheaded character. I also liked this because at the time I was reading about Celtic Magic and liked the name Danae. So for a while I was seriously contemplating this name.
Marlene - A very timid and shy character, an amnesiac who builds a personality through the series and eventually becomes a focal point to finally ending the wars once and for all. This is also REALLY REALLY close to my Original Name. I was Marlene for a VERY VERY VERY long time.
The Purged Years
About 1990, I gave up. Decided I'd live my life without a name...or a life, for that matter. I started writing Part 4 of the Polychronicon...about a boy forced into a woman's body to survive. At first he hates it. Really really hates it. But eventually realizes if he's ever going to get back, he has to make do for now.
He takes on the name Jennifer and proceeds to live his life, working towards the day that he'll be able to get back in his old body (At this point , only females could be clones...he was working on a way to clone males). Eventually, through the years, he acclimates and, while hating it all the way, he learns life as woman.
Now, since no one was around to point these things out to me, it took a VERY VERY VERY long time that I was writing my own self into this story. Once this character acclimated, I was writing ME. Once do-do-head me realized what I was doing, I decided that Jennifer would be MY name - although I'm pretty partial to Marlene, still. But I've been Jenn for a decade or so now. I kinda like the name, myself.
Steph was the one who started calling me Jenn (Two Ns thank you very much). Mainly because she was a big fan of She-Hulk and she said that if it wasn't for the green skin, I looked a lot like her.
As for my middle name, it has always been Christine. Anyone remember Christine McGlade frm YCDTOTV? I was sure I'd look like her. I kinda do. :)
What would YOU, the viewer at home, rename yourself?
So today, I went on a trip.
From Webberville to Utley to Winchester to Serbin.
When writing the new Corporate World story, I was intrigued by the name "Serbin." It sounds cool, alien and mysterious. When I moved to Austin, I didn't realize just how CLOSE Serbin is (Close meaning about 50 miles). So I decided to visit it's namesake...and came away with ideas for the story.
There's nothing in Serbin. Really. There is a Wendish Museum that was closed (Never road trip on a Sunday) and St. James Lutheran Church (All Lutheran Churches I've ever seen are named after St. James...why is that?) However, I'd heard good things about St. James Church and checked it out. Had a nice big Historical marker and decided to test the theory that All Churches Keep Their Doors Unlocked. I used to believe this until the night of my suicide where my chuch's doors were locked and I couldn't get in.
Lo and behold, the door was open. I walked in. This is a very small church, at least compared to the ones I grew up in. Very tight, and very tiny, but, dear Lord, the inside was beautiful! The Pews were wonderfully stained oak, the insides were painted a beautiful sky blue with white trim, a huge organ took up one who wall on the second floor of the church. No real altar (not used to Lutheran masses, being an ex-Roman Catholic, so I'm not sure if that's standard or not). A lot of stuff written in Wendish or German on the bannisters. Very beautiful stuff.
The Corporation's Products now carry the same colors on all products - sky blue with white trim.
From Serbin, I hit:
Northrup to La Grange.
La GRange is somewhere I wanted to visit for a LONG time. Bastrop and La GRange had a lot in common. Both were very influential cities during the Texas Revolution and both sa on "ancient" highways (Bastrop was on the Camino Real and LA Grange on teh La Bahia Road). I made it into town and highlights include:
The Dawson Oak - an Oak Tree where members of the Texas Army were gathered to fight at various hot spots across the Republic. The oak itslef is alive and thriving, but it looks like it hit a bad patch in the past. Most of the interior of the tree is cement. More than likely, they tore out rotted parts of the oak and gave it a cement base to hold it upright.
Prauses Market - Local Meats served to you by people wearing uniforms that look likke they stepped right out of 1950.
City Groceries - An old country store, the kind you see in Old Westerns and 1930s grocery gimmicks. There's one like it in Hyde PArk in Austin, buyt this is MUCH more "cozy" and "old fashioned." There are paper advertisements in the window...hand written. Most of the groceries are from local vendors.
Hermes Drug Store - The pharmacy has stained wooden cabinets with drugs lined up against the wall. all the way around the pharmacy. Wooden cabinets and shelves that have names carved in them where the drugs (used to) go.
Weikel's Store and Bakery. Good pigs in a blanket. Better if they served them hot.
What does any of this have to do with Texas Independence...well...I can't really tell...but I'm sure the Dawson Oak had smething to do with it.
From La Grange to Plum (which is clinging to life despite being twice removed from the highway) to West Point to Smithville.
At Smithville, I perused downtown, but didn't linger - it was getting late.
BAstrop. Bastrop is the most historic town in Texas...and I even told that to a tourist who was trying to figure out why...however...I really couldn't come up with anything IN the town...just the events of the town (and there's a lot of the,...click the link to read about them). Again, I got out and perused the town...but it was late, and I had some quick shopping to do.
Picked up some air filters and came home.
And THAT was my day. :)
I miss my old apartment:
http://www.crossroads.net/lights/index.html#history
So, if you could choose your own name, what would it be?
The only really good thing about my "condition" is that I got to pick my own name. I got think abotu this because over at http://venusenvy.keenspace.com , Zoe had her parents pick her female name. I had a few names...some which are pretty silly, and thankfully I got a hold of myself.
The Early Years
My first name was....don't laugh...Jacqueline (STOP LAUGHING YOU! DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE YOU! DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!) There was a reason I chose it. Over the summer, I'd read a collection of "Real Life True!" stories about as real as a three-dollar-bill. One of them was this COOL COOL story about a ghost possesing a man. however, the ghost was a woman, and was slowly trying to get him to become a female.
Naturally this caught my attention.
Anyways, the ghost renamed him Jacqueline. Hence the name. Thankfully that lasted all of a summer, and I was only thirteen at the time, so I can be allowed a little insanity,
Other names I thought of over time...
Kira - mainly because I loved the name hearing it first on the Dark Crystal. I thought about for a while, but the image I got from that name was a wispy waifish butterfly...and I was no wispy waifsh butterfly thingy.
The Robotech Years
Elizabeth - A very strong and yet very feminine character with Cinnamon Buns for hair.
Dana - A very strong and yet very flirty and occasionally bubbleheaded character. I also liked this because at the time I was reading about Celtic Magic and liked the name Danae. So for a while I was seriously contemplating this name.
Marlene - A very timid and shy character, an amnesiac who builds a personality through the series and eventually becomes a focal point to finally ending the wars once and for all. This is also REALLY REALLY close to my Original Name. I was Marlene for a VERY VERY VERY long time.
The Purged Years
About 1990, I gave up. Decided I'd live my life without a name...or a life, for that matter. I started writing Part 4 of the Polychronicon...about a boy forced into a woman's body to survive. At first he hates it. Really really hates it. But eventually realizes if he's ever going to get back, he has to make do for now.
He takes on the name Jennifer and proceeds to live his life, working towards the day that he'll be able to get back in his old body (At this point , only females could be clones...he was working on a way to clone males). Eventually, through the years, he acclimates and, while hating it all the way, he learns life as woman.
Now, since no one was around to point these things out to me, it took a VERY VERY VERY long time that I was writing my own self into this story. Once this character acclimated, I was writing ME. Once do-do-head me realized what I was doing, I decided that Jennifer would be MY name - although I'm pretty partial to Marlene, still. But I've been Jenn for a decade or so now. I kinda like the name, myself.
Steph was the one who started calling me Jenn (Two Ns thank you very much). Mainly because she was a big fan of She-Hulk and she said that if it wasn't for the green skin, I looked a lot like her.
As for my middle name, it has always been Christine. Anyone remember Christine McGlade frm YCDTOTV? I was sure I'd look like her. I kinda do. :)
What would YOU, the viewer at home, rename yourself?
So today, I went on a trip.
From Webberville to Utley to Winchester to Serbin.
When writing the new Corporate World story, I was intrigued by the name "Serbin." It sounds cool, alien and mysterious. When I moved to Austin, I didn't realize just how CLOSE Serbin is (Close meaning about 50 miles). So I decided to visit it's namesake...and came away with ideas for the story.
There's nothing in Serbin. Really. There is a Wendish Museum that was closed (Never road trip on a Sunday) and St. James Lutheran Church (All Lutheran Churches I've ever seen are named after St. James...why is that?) However, I'd heard good things about St. James Church and checked it out. Had a nice big Historical marker and decided to test the theory that All Churches Keep Their Doors Unlocked. I used to believe this until the night of my suicide where my chuch's doors were locked and I couldn't get in.
Lo and behold, the door was open. I walked in. This is a very small church, at least compared to the ones I grew up in. Very tight, and very tiny, but, dear Lord, the inside was beautiful! The Pews were wonderfully stained oak, the insides were painted a beautiful sky blue with white trim, a huge organ took up one who wall on the second floor of the church. No real altar (not used to Lutheran masses, being an ex-Roman Catholic, so I'm not sure if that's standard or not). A lot of stuff written in Wendish or German on the bannisters. Very beautiful stuff.
The Corporation's Products now carry the same colors on all products - sky blue with white trim.
From Serbin, I hit:
Northrup to La Grange.
La GRange is somewhere I wanted to visit for a LONG time. Bastrop and La GRange had a lot in common. Both were very influential cities during the Texas Revolution and both sa on "ancient" highways (Bastrop was on the Camino Real and LA Grange on teh La Bahia Road). I made it into town and highlights include:
The Dawson Oak - an Oak Tree where members of the Texas Army were gathered to fight at various hot spots across the Republic. The oak itslef is alive and thriving, but it looks like it hit a bad patch in the past. Most of the interior of the tree is cement. More than likely, they tore out rotted parts of the oak and gave it a cement base to hold it upright.
Prauses Market - Local Meats served to you by people wearing uniforms that look likke they stepped right out of 1950.
City Groceries - An old country store, the kind you see in Old Westerns and 1930s grocery gimmicks. There's one like it in Hyde PArk in Austin, buyt this is MUCH more "cozy" and "old fashioned." There are paper advertisements in the window...hand written. Most of the groceries are from local vendors.
Hermes Drug Store - The pharmacy has stained wooden cabinets with drugs lined up against the wall. all the way around the pharmacy. Wooden cabinets and shelves that have names carved in them where the drugs (used to) go.
Weikel's Store and Bakery. Good pigs in a blanket. Better if they served them hot.
What does any of this have to do with Texas Independence...well...I can't really tell...but I'm sure the Dawson Oak had smething to do with it.
From La Grange to Plum (which is clinging to life despite being twice removed from the highway) to West Point to Smithville.
At Smithville, I perused downtown, but didn't linger - it was getting late.
BAstrop. Bastrop is the most historic town in Texas...and I even told that to a tourist who was trying to figure out why...however...I really couldn't come up with anything IN the town...just the events of the town (and there's a lot of the,...click the link to read about them). Again, I got out and perused the town...but it was late, and I had some quick shopping to do.
Picked up some air filters and came home.
And THAT was my day. :)
I miss my old apartment:
http://www.crossroads.net/lights/index.html#history
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I actually like my name =}
Date: 2002-07-16 10:36 am (UTC)Zaecus (Zaecus Celestis in full)
Finn (Aodhfionn Mac Cormaic )
If I someday actually do have three kids (one of each ;-) the third one just might be unlucky enough to be named Zaecus Celestis.