The Middle Distance

'Zira (with that apostrophe so it looks classier, I guess... but there's not one afterward for the rest of the missing name, so what's going on?) has always made my teeth grate. Crawl.... er... That's just sad.

Why on earth does EVERYONE need a damned nickname?? I don't have one, never wanted one, would probably smack the shit out of someone who tried to give me one. My mother nicknamed me into an early grave with cutesy / insulting versions of my own name. I think if I'd have to endure 'Zira, I'd have changed my name and moved faaar away.