In my school life, I've known only 3 Jennifer's, excluding myself. Two were in my high school batch but I've only had the pleasure of having one of them as my classmate. It just so happened that her name was Jennifer Real and thus, I was stuck with being Jennifer Fake. My friend, A, nicknamed me Gjen. Just to have a differentiator between Jennifer Real and Jennifer Fake. When I started going around the instant messenger scene (ICQ, YM, etc), I met a person who actually has the same name as I do. This is quite a coincidence since my surname is not that common. The only difference is that her middle initial is W and mine is V. Other than that we share the same name and even the same nickname. More often than not, I use Gjen. But when I started working, I also started to get tired of explaining to people why I have that nickname. I dropped the G and used Jen for all my correspondence with my colleagues. I still know some people from college who call me Gjen from time to time. I have become used to the fact that my name is as common as it can be. But at least it means "fair beauty". ;)

DA GANDA blogged @ 3/24/2003 04:12:00 PM