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Nicknames are generally either based on your actual name or some characteristic about you that strikes people. Oh, and occasionally they come out of nowhere, like Skippy, or Sport, or Rocky.
Unless you give more info about yourself, I can only suggest that you look at all of your names - first, middle, and last, and figure out some permutation that you find pleasant and comfortable. Or you can pick some aspect of your appearance or character to emphasize and use that - my brother, when he was in college back in the Stone Age, was called Buzz, short for Buzzsaw, because he brought so much energy and determination to anything he set his mind to (he apparently got my entire share of drive, since I have none whatsoever). On the other hand, I know of a man who has been called Buzz for at least forty years, and to my knowledge, the only reason he was called that was that his actual first name of Forrest was too uncommon for it to be comfortable for him (this was decades ago, when unusual names were not the norm). Heaven knows where the Buzz came from, but I don’t think it was anything about him per se that lead to it.
You chose ZebraShaSha as your user name here. That’s a tad cumbersome, but how about Zebra? Or Zeb? Or ShaSha? Or Sha? I have no idea what your username means, so I can’t begin to guess what it was about it that appealed to you or where it came from. But if you liked it well enough to use it here, maybe that’s your best place to start. Or if you have other usernames elsewhere, maybe there’s your source.
Typically nicknames are either bestowed by others, or begun in fairly early childhood. It’s pretty darned hard to bestow one on yourself. On the other hand, you’re certainly choosing the right time to do it if you want to - it’s always easiest to change names when you’re going to be dealing with an entirely new set of people.
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Ask me questions, and ye shall learn. I fly kites, I play the ukulele, I like to dance, sometimes I cry to myself at night.
The only other nickname I have been bestowed in my life is “cool shoes.” This might be due to having hot pink shoes, or the fact that the guy was a verifiable drug lord and was usually fairly stoned. I think everything he saw was hot pink.
Here are some pictures of myself:
Graduating
Flying a kite
I really love the suggestions so far, especially the badass sounding ones. I think I would like one that is really strong, masculine, and.. well.. badass. Something as tough as nails, but memorable and believable.
Also, I’m going to Gatech, which will be 7 years of Nerd Camp, so anything other than “Stevey” “Pete” or “Bill” is already out there. In other words, dance and a dance and go crazy!
