Name Game

[grammargirl]

I've been thinking a lot about names lately, how the things we are called affect both how people see us and how we see ourselves. Anyway, I've got this whole philosophical tangent in my head about names and identity, but it's still pretty jumbled at the moment so instead I thought I'd do that silly name meme that was going around like the plague a while back.

If you call me...

...Melanie, you are most people.
...Mel, you are my mother, most of my relatives, a friend who's known me since before high school, or a few select friends from college (naiveinsight, echo_eriol, Josie Joe, Becca and Amy come to mind offhand).
...Anie, you are Emily.
...Ninnie, you are corenrind, before she fell off the face of the planet. Again.
...Melaynie, you are Jim Anderson (in high school) or Jason (from time to time even today), trying to annoy me.
...Smellanie, you are naiveinsight or Matt the Frat Boy, trying to annoy me.
...sweetie, you are quixoticdancer or, sometimes, my mother.
...sweetling, you are penguinboi, being endearing.
...dollface, you are mathforlovers, but I don't know if it counts since she calls everyone that.
...frannyzooey, you are from LJ and don't know me very well.
...Melanie Elizabeth [last name], you are my mother, and I am no more than ten years old and in Big Trouble.

What do people call you? Drop me a comment and tell me the story behind a few of your names.