My handle (was: Help with Calculations)

[Melody]

> Cindy -- who thinks Melody should explain her handle with the 579 -- 
> or was it 583?


Hm.  Ok.

The Malady is from a middle school band director, my favorite teacher
of all time.  He called me that one day as a joke, and I did not know
what it meant.  He laughed and gave me a dictionary.  I read its
meaning and blushed.  I have liked it ever since as a nice play on my
name.

The 579 is extremely obscure.  So obscure even I barely know why I so
like it.  But I have two theories.  

One: there was a store down here named "579," and when I was of the
ages of 13-16, all I could wear was size 0.  (please do not hate me 
::grin::) The only place to find clothes that fit me was at that
store.  So its name is burned in my mind.  Now, luckly, even Old Navy
has size 0, so shopping is a bit easier.  

Two: When someone asks me to name a number between 1 and 10, I always
choose 5.  The number 7 is the number of God in my faith.  And I was
born in the 9th of June.  579.  ::looks around the room seeing blank
stares of amusement::

See.  Obscure, odd, and really rather weird, but that is what I have
come up with for why I like that sucession of numbers.  Maybe I just
like the ring of that line of odd numbers.


Melody
who is blushing a bit at how she can think about things *way* too much