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    identity crisis

    By heather | November 16, 2007

    When I started the blog, I didn’t know I would get so attached to it. I didn’t expect to meet Internet friends, or be so excited to get and give comments. If I had known that was going to happen, I would not have used my domain name, and I wouldn’t have been dumb enough to install the blog software in the directory it currently resides in, hence the make no sense URL.

    I need to take the blog a bit more anonymous and I need to do it soon because I’ve been dragging this on for ages and I’m starting to annoy myself. I beg of you, tell me what to name it. Hubby says mutantpinky.com, because I have one. That’s not bad, but is that the identity I want?

    And how’s this for creativity – the name at the top? "I’ll think of it…"? That was my filler name when setting up the site – it was a PLACEHOLDER! It could just as well have been "Not now, George" or "Sometime Tomorrow". Yet here it is 6 months later, and my placeholder title has grown on me. Unfortunately though, illthinkofit.com, while available, just looks kind of weird. Maybe not. I don’t know.

    Before you ask questions to try and help me pick a name, consider:

    1. No, I have never ever had a nickname.
    2. I have no idea what the intent of the site is.
    3. I have no idea who my target audience is.
    4. Sites that I admire for building entire blogs around a quirky identity inspire me, but at the same time paralyze me with creative inability to do the same, see #1.
    5. I write about whatever the hell I feel like.
    6. I don’t think I have a niche. It’s got healthy doses of baby stuff, but also rants on topics I generally know nothing about, as well as stunning displays of inadequacy at making my way through the world.
    7. How on earth did I graduate with an advertising degree? I suck at thinking stuff up.
    8. I don’t identify with anything work related. (That’s another thing, with the new job, I REALLY think I need to go more anon. I now work somewhere that people routinely google each other because we are all about the networking.)
    9. My hobbies include teaching yoga, and taking up new crafty things (soapmaking, scrapbooking, sewing, beading) just long enough to spend hundreds of dollars on supplies before I get over it. I never last long enough to write about any of those things.

    So there it is, my plea for help – name me. Or just tell me how you picked your blog name or your super secret pseudonym?

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