Oblate spheroid...haah. Good one.
I used to call nadin "the Zbigniew primitive," but became aware that might give others the idea she was some sort of expert on eastern European history and politics, much like the one-time foreign affairs adviser to Jimmy Carter during the late 1970s. And so I dropped that like a hot potato.
For the longest time, I called nadin a lot of different names, but only in my head, as the computer would probably burn up and explode if I actually wrote out the words.
I forget who it was, but someone made a reference to nadin as Walter Mitty, and I thought that would fit, and used it here.....one time. It seemed a little awkward, and apparently there's no female version of the James Thurber character.
Then I latched onto a German name, baptizing nadin "Baroness Munchausen," after the 18th-century notorious liar (the female version), but still, it didn't seem quite right. It might give others the impression nadin has some blue blood in her.
chris_ kindly provided "oblate spheroid," and
that one suits. To a tee.
There's no suggestion of human-ness or humanity in that term.
It's rather suggestive of something metallic, something hard, without life, without a soul, with no ability to feel heat or cold, affection or hate, or pain or embarrassment. Just dead metal, very hard metal, impenetrable and impervious.
If nadin had a drop of humanity in her, upon looking at how she comes across to other people, she'd take a razor blade and go somewhere hidden to use it, out of shame and embarrassment and humiliation over what an ass she is.
