Nicknames are names for lazy or unnecessarily creative people.

Day 2: Nicknames

I will take this opportunity to talk about screen names and nicknames in my life.
My first nickname I can recall was "Mich." Pretty standard. It was given to me in first grade by a fellow classmate whose name I think was Larry, but I can't remember, and his birthday was on Valentine's day. If he didn't assign that nickname, he's at least the one who used it the most.

Next we have Mikki, which came about in softball in late elementary school. Everyone on the team chose nicknames, and mine ended up being Mikki. I think I officially dropped it when I met a girl actually named Mikki in 6th or 7th grade. My friend Sharron still calls me that occasionally.

For a brief period in early high school, my art class all exchanged names, so I was Malcolm. It didn't last.

My brother calls me George because my Pirate name is 2-Eyed George. Yeah, my friends and I all gave each other Pirate names on the way to see the first Pirates of the Caribbean. Or maybe it wasn't that movie...but it was within the same year as Pirates.

Then there's Artist77. Super generic. I liked the number 77. Also, JesusFreakFive5, because I like the number 5 and the song Jesus Freak.

Ryoukai came from a browsing of cool-sounding Japanese words that weren't incredibly stupid. This one's only slightly stupid. What can I say, I was like 14. It's supposed to mean "Roger," as in, "Roger that!"

The Infamous Flatline was from my band in 10th grade. I think the other band member nicknames included Johnny Schiz, Grumpus McGumpus, or Grump McGump for short, Super Sexy Grandpa, and 2 more I can't recall. The Infamous Flatline was a joke inspired by the fact that I had literally zero interest in relationships of any kind. This has passed, as I have dated a few people since then, but I still use the name, or forms of it, just about everywhere online.

I also played RO for a while with the screen name Jazz Hands, because of this:

2 more:
In high school choir, I was called mini-Beth (or evil-Beth, depending on who you asked), because my sister (Beth) and I look very much alike though we are almost 3 years apart. She was, of course, in choir before me, and I was rather...exuberant.

And in colorguard in HS, I was called the Free Hand Nazi, because I was incredibly strict about the girls' free hands. They're important, dangit!!