Pop-Up Chapel in Central Park for people who want to get married once same-sex marriage is officially legal: [link] (The sister of an old friend of mine is the officiant.)

Congratulations, msbelle!

I've been in New York less than six hours and a pigeon (I hope it was a pigeon) has shit IN my bag. I missed this place.

I think this is an interesting question. What was your first online handle? I think mine was phoenix, at university. I'm not embarrassed at all. Now, if computers had come along in my life five years earlier I'd have gone online as daleyfan, and that would have been blush-inducing to recall.

Heh. I still use my original internet handle, fatou dust. Which I chose when I still thought the internet was going to be all geeks and everyone on it would get the math reference. No one does. But it was a pretty good unique id for a long time. There are some others out there now, but it was mostly me.

Umm.

Bifster. Because it was funny for about 30 seconds. I used it on the high school in-house system. My first one in wide use, though, was Cloister the Stupid, which I used for years and years and years, and ran my boards under and everything. (Fannishness. Always a part of me.)

I think I've been active as Minim Calibre longer than I was as Cloister. Huh.

I never really had a non-name "handle," I don't think.

I used at least portions of my actual name, mostly, because I got my first e-mail etc. account through school. When I could use aliases it was variations on Multipurpose Goddess, which was a college nickname. Should I be embarrassed by that? I'm not. Mildly sheepish, maybe. But I also still use it. So.

I have always signed everything online with "-t", (which is also from a college nickname, I used "t" and my friend Tish used "T" because she was taller than me and we were both too lazy/busy to write out our full names (it was the 80s, it was a hectic time!)) hence my current login name.

I think I used my initials and last name for my first AOL account. But my current monicker goes back to 1997 on The Bronze, and I've used some variation of it ever since.

I was Fred P. on Table Talk. (Very, very, very briefly.)

In other news, turns out I have a compressed spinal cord. Should be correctable by routine surgery, but I'll probably be off work for a week or two. Hoping this corrects the pain, tingling, and numbness in my left arm and hand.

Other early handles that I don't use at all anymore include dundus (Jamaican for albino) and Xaymaca (indigenous Jamaican word for Jamaica). I think I had AOL handles under both names. Everything else I used ten, fifteen years ago, I still use.