Diaries Not Personal Enough?

January 29th, 2003

We've been recently told by someone who was stopping by the website on occasion that our diary entries were not personal enough. That to the casual fan we were still mysteries wrapped in riddles. Of course our new 'Meet the Setbacks' section should help that a bit, but not much.

So I figured I'd start getting more personal. Not to the point that you'd be frightened of me, but just a little insight into everyday things that happen that aren't very interesting, but would show you something.

With that said I begin with the subject of nicknames. Recently people at my day job have been attempting to stick a nick name on me. Working with people named Diesel, Turkey, Hershey, and the G-Man really makes Trevor sound lame. So they searched their souls and came up with the most random thing they could come up with. Their big idea was to stick the name Corn Pipe to me. I feared it would not stick. I was correct. Within hours one of them called me Corn Cob by accident, then the whole thing fell apart.

It didn't help that I was claiming that nicknames never stick to me. Ever since I was a kid I've pretty much been called Trevor or Kealey. In high school people got nicknames, even me, but none stuck longer than a day or two. When I moved to Ontario from La Belle Province, someone thought a good name would be Gaetan, it stuck a bit, but not beyond 3 people.

In University Frosh week, almost everyone got nicknames. That's when we started calling Paul 'Chet', and that name has stuck so hard some people only know him by that name. During that week someone came up with the name Rasta Gator for me (don't ask, because I don't even know) but it didn't last more than a couple of days.

It could be that the nicknames people have attempted to stick on me were not good, and as a result fell off, but I maintain its because I'm covered in nickname Teflon. I'm thinking of scraping some off and selling it in an aerosol can for people who don't like their nickname, but I haven't worked out the physical logistics yet.

Anyway, that's all.

-trevor