Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Effulgence

Noun, lightness, glowing

        I said a while ago that I would tell you how I got the name, and truth be told I really don't have anything elce to say today, so here goes nothing.
        I was trying to come up with a name that would describe both a little bit of who I am and what I do. I considered many things from my online name to a really brief description, like "a collection of ramblings" or "the way I see it" or maybe "a project driven life." I wanted something that had some meaning to me. I finally decided on a title after much consideration "of darkness and light," however I came upon a small problem, like so many others my first idea had already been taken. No matter, I figured I would simply alter the word choice. That's when it hit me, one of my favorite characters  had an affiliation with an word that meant something resembling "lightness," Spike from Buffy was the character and the word was effulgence. The final step was finding a word that meant darkness. I simply used the internets to find a synonym. Tenebrosity was the only word that sounded right and had a effective connotation. Little known fact, I actually had no idea what tenebrosity meant before I started writing for you all. What a way to learn vocabulary. Anyway now I find the need to use big verbiage in order to stay in line with he title.