This Olde Homo (or What's in a Name?)

i'm thinking of changing my name.
not my given name ( i love that). i mean my "alias": CawfeeBoy. i'm clearly not a boy anymore. I've carried this "name" over 10 years, from my AOL days, when Jenn and i used to surf for guys and get into all sorts of delicious trouble. i still get e-mail for that screen name on occasion, though it's been changed to CawfeeBoy2 when i got my own AOL account. i haven't been a "boy" in years. don't ask me how many years, 'cause i really don't know. it's hard to say when i stopped feeling like a boy, if i ever did...

up until now, i've lead a life that was paradoxically immature. i lived at home till i was about 26/27 (which seems very late to me), i didn't start driving till i was 25, i stopped working at the mall when i was 28. at the same time, i hit puberty kinda early (12/13), and started fooling around with other boys shortly there after. by the time i was in college i already had a nice little goatee going that aged me about ten years; add to that my hair that was receding at 20 and i looked 30 almost 10 years too soon. i never fit into that Club Kid mold that most of my homo-bretheren fall into at some point. i was always cute/average looking, but never adorably young; the glow-stick twirling, pacifier sucking Ganymede. it just wasn't me.

now, at 29 (i turn 30 on July 31st, in case you forgot), i'm wondering where my "youth" went. when did i stop being called "kid"? when did i become a "sir" (or occasionally Ma'am on the phone) or "Mr. L--------"?

so what should i change my name to? CawfeeGuy? CaffinatedGayGuy? Please post some ideas as comments...


"I've been young and I've been beautiful, but never at the same time"- Torch Song Trilogy (Harvey Feirstein)