The End of an Era

[ladysprite]

It's finally happened. After ten years of having the same email address, hotblack is finally going away. I'm not quite sure how to handle this.

I know people tend to change addresses fairly frequently, but I never have. I settled into this account when I was still an undergrad, and I've been there ever since. I have messages saved here from before my sweetie and I started dating eight years ago, and probably chronicling the majority of our relationship. I have the security of knowing that friends who haven't seen me since 1995 still know where and how to get in touch with me. And now it's going.

I suppose this is good practice for changing my name next fall - I know it's harmless, but I feel like I'm losing a piece of my identity. Anyway, I'm going to put the new address in a friends-locked entry after this; if you can't see it and still want the new contact info, reply here and I'll pass it on....

Comments

[claire.livejournal.com]

;) I've had my email address for 5 years and I hated having to change it before then, but as my Uni account was going away, I had to.

I recently bought a new mobile phone and had to swap my phone number into a new SIM card. Surprised the heck out of the people at the store that I'd had the same phone number for the last 4 years - apparently they're used to people switching them all the time.