May 1st

[jackjanderson]

A couple of unrelated points:

I'm sick. I've got some kind of virus, started coming down with it last night - temperature, congestion, coughing, sneezing and very little throat. No appetite and all my old bones are aching. Probably only a bad cold but it's a doozy of one. Today has most been spent curled up on the couch, watching Star Trek on Netflix and doing crosswords on my tablet.

I do not like my twitter name. It's currently flyingtojack. jackjanderson has already been taken which is annoying because that would be my preference. So, my question, as I'm pondering this, is: how do you choose your social media handles?

I mentioned in my last post that Samantha has been 'suggesting' that Lucy & I start blogging again. With Lucy, it's become less of a suggestion and more of a demand so I suspect Lucy will also start updating her journal again. It helps with her mental health, gives her an outlet and she enjoys being able to talk to people about fandom things. I know I do enjoy blogging when I'm doing it but always struggle to think of things to post so I went onto the Pinterest and found one of those 30 day writing challenges. I was going to answer the first one in this post but honestly feel like I'm about to go back to sleep, so maybe later

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[marginaliana]

I chose this name (an alarming number of years ago) by discovering that 'marginalia' was taken on every single platform, so I decided to smash it together with the suffix -ana. I think I'd just discovered -ana because I was reading something that used 'Frostiana' about Robert Frost. I put them together and it looked cool and I've kept it on every platform since, because I like consistency. (Even though everyone always misunderstands what it means! But at least they can find me, which is the most important bit.)

I guess mainly I wanted something that was not related to my real name and was made up of words that would indicate a neat thing that I liked - a neat thing that was fairly classic. And I wanted something a bit elegant, too. Maybe whimsical, but not too silly. IDK, I think it depends on what kind of image of yourself you're trying to project. Who do you want to be?