My family has a long tradition of using reverse-spelled names as nicknames - I'll answer to Acissej without blinking.

I know a Jennifer who goes by Ferna... which is an abreviated Fer Na Jen

The Jens I know I refer to as Ferna, Rufus, Cass (or My Jen) and Adams (or Chem Jen) and My Cousin Jenny. I think they were all born within 18 months of each other.

This is why I resist shipping every fictional couple

Well, I don't have any fun in shipping couples who don't have emotional or eye candy appeal. It's not about folks standing next to each other. But shipping also doesn't make anything disappear. I would say half of one percent of my ships (and, loh, despite adjacency not being a criterion, they are legion) make me want it to happen in "real" life. No fictional friendships or camaraderie were harmed in the making of this intellectual and emotional exercise. Not even devalued.

The examples of friendship exist right there on the screen, as well as in the places I take the people to in my heads. Sometimes. It's not like foeyay (I was just thinking of JenGod thinking of Ho Yay, and I wonder how that feels, to have conceived of such a punchy and infectious shorthand. I hope she's pleased as punch. And with the last job of hers I was aware of, hey! Why not put it on the resume...you probably outdo your boss on this one (Actually, peon, I coined the word "gay". Know your place).) doesn't have its fun too.

[DOUBLE POSTING BASTARD SOFTWARE!!!!!]

Ooh, sun, finally.

My childhood best friend and I were making up a language (or something, I don't really remember), but we definitely called it Yllomessej.

including bringing back a few people who were laid off in one of the prior rounds (which I've never heard of happening before).

Well, firstly, RELIEVED it's not you. Secondly, I guess if there are people resisting being up to date, this is a danger, and although I expect RIF feels painful every time, calibrating the amount of self-kicking is a precise and tricky manoeuvre (ironically that's a trickier word than I thought when I started typing it). Countrywide laid off a bunch of people, and a couple years later Bank of America, their purchaser, was pointedly trying to track same down for re-hiring. I did not make the un-cut, which is good for my mental health as well as car mileage, but damn it stings not being able to get back into the room, even if it's not your precise job that's hiring.

Ooh, sun, finally.

Which song does this trip off in your head, and performed by who? I've got Nina Simone singing Here Comes The Sun. I'm not sure why people fight and deny a song they like is a cover, but I did hiss and spit on this. Who the fuck are the Beatles anyway?

...I just tried to add a "graphic guidelion" layer to my adobe newsletter template. I feel that would end badly.

I want a guidelion.

A lot.

I want a guidelion.

A lot.

A guidelion would be very useful while commuting through hyena-controlled lands.