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[tabular_rasa]

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Generally I love it; I'm kind of a photo-whore. I love taking photographs for all sorts of stupid occasions, and I like being in them so I can remember what I looked like and was wearing, etc, that day. I don't mind being tagged in others' photos online because I don't tend to engage in the types of activities I would be embarrassed about being posted publicly. I even leave up the pictures which are unflattering or only show parts/the back of me-- and this probably explains why I have 1500+ pics on Facebook, lol. (In a way, having so many drowns out all the bad ones so they don't even matter). To my memory, I've only ever untagged one picture of me. (Though I've untagged a few pictures that weren't me!).

That said, I do keep pretty strict tabs on my photo privacy settings online. Livejournal entries containing pictures are always friendslocked and I lock my Facebook albums to Friends Only unless specifically requested to do Friends of Friends (and the pictures aren't incriminating, lol). I do this less because the pictures are incriminating, but because I think some employers that troll the internet are looking for professional discretion as much as they are real history.



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It's grown on me. When I was younger I wanted a different name, something feminine, flowery, and long enough to make a nickname out of. (That's one thing I've always been disappointed about regarding my name; you cannot make a shorter nickname out of it!). I would have chosen something like Samantha, Rosalinda, Anastasia, Amanda . . . You get the idea. Something with lots of feminine letters (am I the only one who gives letters genders, or is that another synaesthesia thing?), ending with a feminine "a."

However, just as I no longer want long blond hair grown past my butt and am fine with long brown hair to my waist (lol), I'm fine with the "Amy" I was given at birth. It's still pretty feminine, and it has the fun bonus of also being similar to Emi, a popular girls' name in Japanese, so I can buy stamps and stuff with *my name* on them here, lol. And hey, shorter the name, less time it takes to write on papers and things.



Tory and I are back in Hagi after our weekend in Kansai area. We have to decide what we want to do this upcoming weekend and make the appropriate reservations. In the meantime, she came to school with me today and is coming again on Thursday. We'll explore locally after classes. I'm still mostly out of commission since I'm entertaining her.

Comments

[jenny_evergreen]

It's not just you on the letters thing, but, then, I'm weird. :P

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yea! Yeah, numbers and letters all have individual genders, colors, and personalities in my head. (And the colors do not have any relationship to the foam letters/numbers I used to play with in my bathtub, or that would make more sense; it used to bother me they chose the *wrong* colors for them!). The color thing makes sense as synaesthesia (which I'm almost positive I have; I also get some texture/sound associations as well), but no idea why I also associate gender and personality.

[jenny_evergreen]

In my case, some are fairly well developed, while others are more or less "in waiting"...I have an instinct for them, but never fleshed it out 'cause I was busy with other things. :)
I think some people just tend to anthropomorphize everything, I know I do! I've gotten more mellow about it with age, though. :)

[scorpiuspro.livejournal.com]

Certain musical tones or textures have colors, so we're both synaethesia freaks hehe :P

I think your name is gorgeous, and since you're one of the most loving person I know, it's more than fitting :)

I love every single one of your photos, you're the most gorgeous girl in the world!!!!

*hands out barf buckets to everyone*

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

I give letters genders too, and the names of the days of the week have colours.