Thank you. You're one of the reasons--most likely the first reason--why I have positive associations with the nickname Dawn.

~Zingen :)

PS: I...should probably post some more or something. I'm used to not being DawnFire now, but I'm not yet used to typing Zingenmir. That should change. Unfortunately, classes are starting up... ~Z

Totally. I'm very much an Asian guy. I just disappeared because of a tech accident, which made me get reborn as a Jewish baby girl... :P

The second N is currently catching *me* out, actually, but without it the phrase is complete nonsense. Or, well, actually Zingemir is basically misspelled German mashed together with Yiddish that doesn't fit with it--singen in German is to sing, ich singe ought to be "I sing" unless the verb is a very unlikely irregular, and then we get mir, which is the Yiddish equivalent of wir, meaning 'we'... Basically, that would be a mess. I'm gonna keep that N.

I'll accept Zing or Zingen or Zingemir or Dawn (from people who were already calling me Dawn). Maybe even Z. I'm sure there are other things. I would, however, like to suggest that whenever I make an okay joke someone replies with "Zing!" :P

~Z

PS: what are you talking about, I totally have mercy. You need it when you have a casual army of polar bears and don't want people thinking you're a tyrant.

That's a nice song, too, all about a (potentially metaphorical?) tune that every generation sings. It's not the one I was thinking of (I'll link it in a moment), but considering the lyric translates to "we sing it, and it sounds so beautiful"... very nice association. I'm glad to have it.

The one I was thinking of is called "Sprayz ich mir", a title which I never remember. This is an old (80s) live recording of the Klezmatics; I've heard recordings I liked a tiny bit better, but, well, this has the lyrics in both Yiddish transliteration and a German translation in the description. (And it's not a bad recording; I just prefer a slightly more dynamic version.) Anyway, here it is: https://youtu.be/arXl62cl720

And ooh, infinite pizza! That sounds great. Does it ever switch toppings, or does it stick with what's on it?

~Z

PS: it's going to take me a couple of tries too--I hesitated a moment before typing the right name at the top, and just now I tried to sign off as ~DF. I think the change is a good one, though. I feel more comfortable, like it suits me better now than DawnFire does. I think I came up with the name at thirteen or so--the first email address I had that uses it has its oldest bit of communication time-stamped to early January 2008. On the other hand, I could have been using it earlier...I certainly may have been using Brightshadow earlier, because I know I used that first. So it's entirely possible my friend and I came up with those names when I was as young as 12 (she's a few years younger, which has always been easy to forget--she's this wonderful person with very similar reading tastes to me and this sort of vaguely ageless quality, I always felt. I mean, I knew she was younger than I was, but I never really felt it until we were in different levels of schooling. And even then, it was mainly just a shock to the system--'good heavens, she's not in high school yet!' or 'yeah, so this is what university is like...' Anyway. She's great--always has been, likely always will be--and I need to stop rambling and wake up a little more. זינגן∆ (=∆Zingen. I amuse myself :D)