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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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[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