Actually Misk, there's only about fifteen hundred folks in the US whose first name is Dimitri, going by one of the name-searching whatsit sites. Narrow that down to NYC and you'd probably only have a handful of folks to sift through
Was kinda' interesting to stick mine in there and see there's only a few hundred folks in the states sharing my name. I'm fairly compulsive about not associating this user name with my real one, though, as well as not sharing particularly identifiable information online all around. The few folks aware of the connection are of more or less the same opinion, insofar as that goes.
Partially habit, partially because I would honestly rather be fairly forthright on opinions and suchlike online, and having some them potentially easily traced back to me is... unwise, where I'm living right now. Lot of bigoted fuckwits in my area, plenty of which wouldn't have much trouble making problems for me, as I've seen them make problems for folks a bit more vocal about not cleaving strongly to the primary social mores of the area. There's fights to be picked on the subject, but this area isn't exactly the place to be pickin' 'em. Least unless you're willing and able to resort to violence when (and when is more likely than if, from what I've seen
) it ends up coming down to that. Might be the latter, not so much the former.