Donnie

So throughout most of my life I have never really been called anything else that wasn't "Donald".  No cool nicknames really. One of my buddies in high school used to call me Trump and as a joke another one of my friends now calls me D-man. But for the most part it's "Donald". Which I guess is how I have preferred it.  Never really been into derivatives of my name such as Don or Donnie.  But ever since I have started school this is what I am mostly called, and I have gotten used to it.

It started with my friend Jeremy who on one of the first days of class decided to call me Donnie because he thought that the name made more sense for a guy who came from LA.  He also usually yells it and elongates it when he says it. So that name stuck.  Also, people just shortened it to Don.  So now I'm either Donnie or Don, and rarely Donald.  Which is cool.  It was a bit strange to respond to those names since no one has ever called me by those names (with any frequency).

Also, the newest nickname that has been bestowed upon me has been Wahlberg.  My friend Connor (by calling me Donnie) was reminded of Donnie Wahlberg - former member of New Kids on the Block and older brother to Mark Wahlberg.   So now he refers to me as Donnie Wahlberg or just Wahlberg.  This name is probably the one I like best because I found it clever - like when I was called Trump (because of Donald Trump and I played trumpet in high school).

Also, during the ending of last term I was helping out a lot of my classmates helping get their textures and shaders for their still lifes working.  Since I was able to understand how it worked and was teaching so many others about it one of my friends said I was the Godfather of Texturing.  And so instead he decided to call me the Donfather. So every now and again he'll call me that.  Again another clever one. 

Well I have to head out to class. Until next time.