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I rather enjoy challenges, and your grumpy, prickly attitude of earlier seemed like one. As such, I accepted it in a light-hearted nature. As stated, my intention was a gentle ribbing, not to impose insult. Text is a little harder to gauge that sort of thing in, I suppose; and though I'm good at reading between the lines, I more than willingly admit I'm nowhere near omnipotent.

Finding out and being told are indeed different, yes. However, I'd never met anyone before who was insulted when you were willing to put in a little extra effort to find out about them. Well, unless they'd done something wrong, but I figure that doesn't apply here. You caught my attention, and I followed it.

Haha! I'm thirty-five, which really isn't all that old, especially if you don't plan to let yourself fall into the sedentary mindset of being old. It's just that I still look like I'm in my early twenties. And it took until I was about twenty-eight for people to actually believe I was an adult on first meeting. I still have a hard time being taken seriously, despite the fact that I do indeed have a fair amount of life experience, and it's frustrating. So...it's more just a bit of a sore spot for me, and when it's poked too much I get grumpy. And the revenge thing? In truth, yellow's my favorite color. And I figured the only people who would read my journal would be my immediate coworkers who previously made me grumpy, so if attempting to stare at my journal scheme irks them at all then it's a rather amusingly harmless strike back. While there are definitely things in life that deserve full sobriety and seriousness, if you live the rest of life steeped in such then you really will be old before your time. Thus, if people poke fun at me about something that isn't serious, I very readily poke right back.

Actually, I only really looked all the way through the first post. I'd opened the last several figuring that the name thing was more of a game and that it would be challenging, so was slightly surprised when it wasn't. While what I did find only made my curiosity grow, your response to it made me rethink looking further into your journal. You apparently don't take it as a compliment when someone takes interest enough to do the research and aren't simply making a game of it, and much prefer to tell people about yourself instead. As such, I'll respect that and refrain from delving into past entries further or reading others' replies to any future posts you make - despite my curiosity - alright? And hearsay is the sort of thing I'd rather not believe, thank you kindly. I let a person make their own impression, not blindly believe idle gossip.

If I am wasting my time, then it is free time that is mine to waste if I so choose. And my attention is still caught.