Daylight savings time has eaten my brain.

We've been saved from daylight for a week now, and it's still screwing with my head.

I would always think of Fay as Fay now

I always think of her as FayJay, which is fun to say..jay.

Leah, Sarah, and Rachel aren't as regularly nicked as, say, Susan, Stephen, James

In my experience, Rachel is just as ripe. It just depends on the enforcing body.

"Rache" doesn't seem as common a name as Sue, Susie, Steve, Stevie, Jim, Jimmy... that sort of thing. Off the top of my head I can't think of an actor or athlete or otherwise famous person who regularly goes by "Rache" but I can think of bunches of the others.

In my head (a scary place) there is a difference between spoken nicknames and written nicknames. Rache is a perfect example. I had never seen it written before, but I have used it.

Just like calling K-Bug "Kel", though I'd never write that to her.

I'm okay with nicknames as long as they aren't rude. I've been called Kat, Kaff, Kaffy and Kate.

I do, however, hate it with an unreasonable passion when people spell my name with a "C." Every Cathy I've known has been another "c" word (c.f. above, rude).

Just like my friend Joy said about guys of her acquaintance named Rick. "In my experience, the 'p" is silent."

I am makeing the best of monday by watching Bride and Prejudice.

It is more fun that the kira Knightly version - because things can be changed in order to fit the culture norms. and of course, Naveen Andrews

My non-online name is "Heather". I never tended to get nicknamed. "Heath" didn't seemed nick-ish, nor did "Ther". (If my sister had been of a more literary bent, I might have been renamed "Blasted Heath" by her. Instead she just called me "that brat".) Thanks to the Heather popularity that came along about 5 years after I was born, I haven't had any trouble with folks spelling or pronouncing it.

My family called me sj as a child, but almost none of my school friends called me by a nickname. When they did it was a nickname on my last name and not my first.

My sister is Hilary, not terribly nickable, but that child's had more nicknames than anyone I know. A lot of them actually stem from her own mispronunciations when she was learning to talk. Several more from the three or so days following her birth when she remained unnamed.

I had one nick as a child that only people who knew me before I could walk ever use. Other than that I get called B or BJ or beej on occasion, none of which I mind.

My best friend's name is Heather. I have nicknames for her but they're just between us and have nothing to do with her name. Even back in high school she mostly just nicknamed herself anything that was a riff off of her own name. Like when her jeans were too tight, she called herself "Heifer". I shortened it to just Hef and then when she was pregnant with her first daughter, she changed it to Hef & Calf. Which, fun for *us* to say but not your average nickname. If anyone else called her that, she'd have probably killed them.