How do you refer to the currently logged user in your code?

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Published on 2010-05-20T11:34:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 12:00 UTC
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In other words - what would be a good name for a variable that references the currently logged user?

I've come up with a few:

logged_user
visitor
me

I'm not convinced either of them is good enough though.

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