man in the mirror
Earlier this week, I tried to load my LiveJournal page and got something unfamiliar instead. Though the page clearly said mindgasm at the top, the formatting was very different. I felt a wave of mild panic as my mind considered the odd possibility that a malicious program had infested my computer.

Closing Firefox and going back to LJ appeared to solve the problem. But it just happened again a little while ago. I looked closer only to see that my moniker is no longer unique.

I concocted the name "mindgasm" while on a plane from Frankfort to Detroit Metro, at the end of my spring break trip to Germany. I'd tired of reading whatever books I had with me. I don't recall precisely my motivation at the time, but I distinctly remember I was ready to move on from my first LiveJournal persona, enigmaticblue. Ideally my new identity would convey the same spirit of the old, but perhaps with less pretentiousness.

I think I bombed on that part, but the journal lives on.