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[telophase]

Got tagged for a meme by selenite, and for once I'm actually doing it. :)

Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.

Telophase. One of the phases of mitosis (cell division). Long and long ago (four years, in Internet terms), I was playing with the Internet Anagram Server, and dropped in my first and last names. One of the phrases that popped up was "Telophase Fines." Not too long afterwards I needed to sign up on a web forum somewhere and didn't really want to use my real name. Casting about for a suitable moniker, I rememebered the anagram, and popped in "telophase." History was made, and I have found that in most cases, I'm the only Telophase on a forum, so if I try to sign up somewhere and that name it taken, it's usually because I signed up there already. Someone had already gotten Telophase on Gmail, however, so I'm telophase14 there. I get interesting responses to my username - Sometimes people are "Weird," sometimes they think I'm a Bio geek, and once someone told me I was their favorite phase of mitosis.

I did have someone once ask me, in what came across as a condescending manner, if I knew what telophase really was. Strangely, they never responded to me when I said "Yup. A phase of mitosis. Why?"

I shall, however, break the chain of the meme by telling you that if you wish to consider yourself tagged you are.

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[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
tammylee = my first and middle names. ^_^ Actually, it was supposed to be Tammy-Lee according to my mom but the nurses didn't write it properly.

SO ORIGINAL! =D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You're just so Southern, girl! XD (It always seems to me that you type with an accent, because of the frequent use of question sentences - you've got that sort of Minnesota sound in my head. XD)

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

There is actually an explanation for the question marks!
A friend, evanofteammink, tends to use question marks all the time in chat and IT IS SO CONTAGIOUS! We can tell when someone has been chatting with Evan because they use question marks with startling frequency.

*accents about*
*says 'eh' a lot*
=D
Oh hey, were you planning on hitting Ycon at all? I'm still wafflingggggg, we might have a studio retreat in the same month in Maryland so I am left to balance my bankbook.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD

I'm waffling on Ycon. I can get sent to the Internet Librarian conference easy enough, and that conference is the week following Ycon, so the schedule is not a problem. But part of it depends on a friend who has family in the area who is thinking about throwing a get-together out in the woods in her family's house for a few friends and if she chooses the Ycon weekend, I'd probably do that instead of Ycon.

And then there's the OH GOD I NEVER WANT TO GET ON A PLANE AGAIN FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE thing, too. XD

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

Dude, I haven't chatted with Evan in ages and I still find myself using question marks that way sometimes. XD Very contagious!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I swear it is because he is so charming and fabulous that we subconciously want to be like him! XDDD

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, and I grocked on telophase being part of mitosis but yeah, I just assumed you were a bio geek. XDDD

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Most of the people who love me end up skipping the first vowel of my name. Not all, but most. I didn't used to introduce myself as Mris or Mrissa, but sooner or later most of my friends slid into calling me that anyway. So when "marissa" was taken on lj, mrissa seemed like a logical choice.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D There seems to be something about M and R being close together that encourages elision, at least in my dialect. I remember back in grade school being a bit confused about people who objected to "Ms." on the grounds that "Miz" sounded ugly, because that was how "Mrs." was pronounced.

Although the name of the Marissa I knew in college didn't elide because she pronounced it ma-REE-sa and something about that discouraged skipping the a.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Marisa -- the standard spelling for the ma-REE-sa pronunciation -- is a different name from mine. I've seen it nicknamed "Reese." This is reasonable. "Ris" is the corresponding version, and I only answer to it for very, very select few people: either under the age of 5 or of a big-sib style relationship with me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

This one spelled it with two S's - I saw her name written first and used your name for a while until someone told me I was saying it wrong. :D

I used to rail against "Steph" until giving up because it was a losing battle. Now I merely refuse to answer to "Stephie."

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

"heyoka" is sort of a sacred clown among the Sioux. They're the contrary ones, who act in opposite to whatever is the standard/expected behavior. Wikipedia has a pretty good article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka).

When I moved to South Dakota in 1998, I had to pick a username for my new ISP. I had been blackangel/blkangel all through college, inspired partly by the Lilith legends, but I felt like I wanted something less dark, less angry. And being in South Dakota heightened my lifelong interest in Native American imagery. I liked the idea of the "sacred clown", but my dad was already using koshare (the Hopi sacred clowns), so I went looking for something in a similar vein.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I once had a character called The Wizard Mee (the 'The' is important), who inhabited the Wyrdness World along with her pygmy dragon, an elf guy she stole magic shiny clothing off of whilst he was swimming (and so had to always hide behind tactfully placed bushes in his attempt to retrieve them) and an Evil God named Barry. I came up with "wyrdness" because I happened to look at my nearby books and my eyes fell upon The Wyrd Sisters by Terry pratchett, I added the "ness" so it'd sound like weirdness, which my characters and world certainly were.

So when I came to LJ I decided to re-used wyrdness because I liked the supernatural connection, but mainly because oh how it sounds like "weirdness", which tends to describe me rather well.

And that's my long and not very interesting story on how my name came to be :D

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I first got on the internet around 1999 or so. Sailor moon was my first love so I spent hours saving random images on floppies and other such boring things. When I finally disobeyed my mom and logged into a chat room I needed a username and tried a few variations of Rei/Raye Hino/Sailor Mars. Everything I could think of was taken, and I didn't like adding numbers, so I had "Raye" typed into the screen when I bumped my purse and my little pikachu keychain lit up. I typed "chu" at the end, and there you have it. I'm the only one with the name I have ever seen, and I really like it, so I have had it since.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

rayechu, you're totally responsible for my name :). You have set up all of my accoutns online for me because I lack basic internet skills. I think you picked dark elf from the Salvatore books and not drow or drizzt because you didn't like them. No idea where you got 105 though.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I am completely boring in this regard.

Also, the anagram thing sucks with my name. The best I squeezed out of it was Aeon Ely Oh, which almost sounds like an anime character name that I could live with.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Agh! Earworm! I will now be singing "There was a farmer had a cow, Aeon Ely Oh!" for the rest of the day.

[rabican.livejournal.com]

Rabican was a black stallion in the story of Orlando who could run faster than the wind ... I haven't actually read Orlando, mind, I just really, really like Bullfinch's mythology.

As a result of this my now-defunct writing journal was called Bayard.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Totally the best mitotic phase ever!

I'm also fairly fond of Anaphase, but sometimes he can be a little overbearing.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Back when I forst worked for The Princeton Review we didn't have Outlook. Instead we used AOL for interoffice emails, with usernames like TPRAustin, TPRPhoenix, and of course TPRCollegeStation. They needed to give me my own, so I became TPRJones (Jones being my last name).

Since everywhere I went the name was already available, I just stuck with it. I haven't worked at The Princeton Review in over five years now, but it's still handy due to it's availability.

There's a couple of references to a TPRJones on juno.com that's not me, and I suspect it's not a valid reference as it's only shown up ont he To line of a spam email. Otherwise if you see a TPRJones on the internet (http://www.google.com/search?q=TPRJones&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images&sa=N&tab=iw), that's me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh. I switched that to a Google Image search (http://images.google.com/images?q=TPRJones&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images&sa=N&tab=wi) for the hell of it and you are either a supercomputer or Leonardio DiCaprio.

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

My best friend in high school and I always spoke either a) in French or b) in a nonsense language, both just to keep everyone else out of the conversation (remember those long band bus trips where everyone was in everyone else's business? yeah). Anyways, one day she said "Bubaloo?" and I replied "Awamiba!" and it stuck. As did "Meep", which in college led to "peem", which still occassionally gets requested of me. "Abimawa" was popular for a while, but I no longer remember its meaning. Hm. But awamiba is open damn near everyone online (except where I've previously registered and forgotten it). :)