...and on a more pointlessly self-centered note:

i can't relate to my name. we're on uneasy terms for the moment, mainly avoiding each other in a polite sort of way, but i've always kind of known in the back of my head that eventually one of us is going to leave for good.
i'm serious. this isn't normally much of a problem, being a recluse and all, but with the semester starting it's suddenly been brought to my attention. people keep getting my name involved in things, and it's weird. when people ask me what my name is, i have to think for a second, and 'Chris' doesn't seem like the right answer.
no one ever gives me a nickname, though. instead i'm just almost never called by name. usually it doesn't occur to people to wonder what it is, anyway, come to think of it. i have alot of acquaintances whom i don't think actually know me by name.

and so my question to you, dear reader, is What the fuck's up with that?