My Name is Nova...??

Just a little bit of history...how I got the nickname Nova. Unfortunately it is not my real name, and there was a time in my life when I was seriously considering legally changing my name to Nova but it's like a pretty involved process and ain't no 18 year old got time for that.

My real name is Michelle. Nova started in cyber land

My journey into cyber land began when I was about 16. Using the computers at school, setting up emails for learning purposes and all that jazz. We didn't get a computer at home until shortly after I turned 17 and then I was able to create my own cool email and online names.

Around this time, I was really into green day ( I know right ) amongst other super cool awesome bands. I loved the song "Give me Novacaine". I had a friend who was really into green day, way more so than me and we would listen to them all the time together. 

So when I was ready to join Bebo ( pause for that hilarity ), I knew I wanted the word Novacaine in my profile name. But when I was typing it it, I missed out on one of the N's so it was spelled Novacaie and I just loved it. I pronounce it nova-Kai. 

And it soon became my name everywhere online ( Bebo, MySpace, MSN, Facebook, blogger and all the forums and chat rooms I went on). I became confident and happy, chatting to people online, writing my profiles and sharing my thoughts and ideas.

I don't care if they were real or fake people, I enjoyed being on the Internet and broadening my mind.

I started to sign off conversations as Nova instead of Novacaie for handiness ( or laziness ) and people would refer to me as Nova. For a long time, people thought it was my real name. Then people started calling me Nova in real life and it just stuck. 

Not many call me it in my current circles in the real world but I have so much love for its history, I will always be Nova online.

I'm not two different people, I am Michelle both in the real world and cyber land. But Michelle is Nova, we are one in the same. The confidence I gained spending years online, reading and watching and learning from others has helped shape me into the person I am today.

Sometimes I am cynical or straightforward. Sometimes I am sensitive to a serious fault and sometimes I am mouthy and opinionated. 

So for all you in cyber land

I am Nova...hear me roar! Haha x

My attempt at artistic photography.