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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Philadelphia-area professional IT geek, aspiring midlife career-changer, occasional writer, divorced joint-custody mom of a lil' glasses-bedecked nerd-child, on-and-off college student, road trip aficionado, recovering obnoxious blowhard.

If I Had to Describe Myself in One Word: I'd use the power of hyphens to cheat and say "INTJ-but-not-the-misanthropic-jerk-kind".