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Bam. Consecutive update. Alright, go me.

Let's see.

The power of words and language is really important to me. I'm always trying to figure out the perfect combination of words to get my point across just right. Along with that, I like listening to other people and the words they use.
For instance, a guy I worked with last night kept referring to me as 'B' (which kind of worked since that's the first letter of my last name). As it turns out, he just calls everyone 'B', just as one would call someone 'bro' or 'dude'. And my mind got to brewing as to the origin of this colloquialism. My mind tried to place it as an East coast thing and I wanted to ask him where he was from but I think I got distracted by something else going on.
But words can mean so much.
I read into the tiniest things... like the difference between "Can I get a..." and "May I have a" or even just "Yeah" vs. "Yes".
To get cosmic with it, I'm a Virgo-- the star sign ruled by Mercury, the planet that governs over communication and language. I think I read somewhere that when a planet goes into retrograde (which I think means that it travels backwards through the astrological whatchamacallit), everything associated with that planet gets jumbled. And since Mercury is currently in retrograde (I think), everything communication and language related gets fucked up.

But whatever.

Also, what's up with all these old, 40-year-old men hitting on me on online dating websites? And why are guys my age either super stupid or ridiculously elitist?
Are there any decent fish left in the ocean?

(Aside from me, of course :D)