I've been thinking a lot about language lately. Getting accused for having a vocabulary that is too big. Talking to people I don't normally. Just having an ear out for words. Who am I kidding. I always think a lot about this. Just more than usual right now I guess.
To follow that trend, I was at lunch the other day when I overhead a woman at the next table say something akin to this to a man in the group. "A man can say the exact same thing a woman does but with less words." The man had heard the comment from someone else in the group but didn't understand what had been said; he was clearly acquiring the English (or maybe, more precisely, American) language.
Whatever the case, I think the statement is true. And moreover I think there is a very good reason for it. See, if men talked as much as women did, there'd be two issues: 1) They wouldn't need to be "listeners" and 2) They couldn't blame their lack of listening ability on the women who talk too much.
Basically, my point here is to say this: the poor chap who was acquiring the language - or dialect, as it may have been - must have been lost...in translation.
Hey, wait, isn't that a movie with Bill Murray? I never saw it but heard it wasn't too great. Probably had nothing to do with the talking habits of women. I just thought of that and it seems like a good way to close.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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