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I remember it like it was yesterday: my very first job 😄💵💸

I had just graduated high school and was excited to cement my new adulthood with a real, live, outside-of-my-family-or-doing-chores-related J-O-B.

I peppered the mall with copies of my resume, which, at the time, was made up of volunteer work.

In less than a week, I had not one, but two retail job offers. I've never been so happy making minimum wage before... or since, lol.

The other day, I wondered just how much money I've earned since starting that first job. Specifically, I was interested in seeing what my earnings pattern was over time. I recalled seeing the number once before but couldn't remember where, so I searched the internet for answers.

What I found was truly enlightening.

Sesquipedalianism

As a grammar and word nerd, expressions I've never heard before or don't know the meaning of pique my interest. The longer the word, the better. If nothing else, once you figure out how to pronounce it, you can always use the word to confuse the heck out of someone you want to insult lol.

Today's new-to-me word is "sesquipedalianism." Try saying that five times fast... no, really, I'll wait ⏰

Fittingly, sesquipedalianism is the tendency to use big words. According to Dictionary.com, the word is traced to the ancient Roman poet Horace. In a piece on crafting poetry, Horace wrote that one must avoid sesquipedalia verba (Latin for “words a foot and a half long”). 

I see what you did there, Horace: using a big word to denounce the use of big words... clever 😉

Source: Dictionary.com

Large amounts

Every so often, stats are published on the amount of U.S. money in circulation. For those wondering, the amount as of June 2018 is $1.67 TRILLION dollars. That's 1,000,000,000,000, also know as 10 to the 12th power (one followed by 12 zeros), or one million million.

I love huge numbers, ones so big you can barely wrap your head around them 😍 Recently, I was thinking of the largest real number I can think of (quadrillion) and what sequence of numbers comes after that. I've posted them below in case you're curious, too.

Happy birthday :-)

Yesterday (September 19), the emoticon :-) celebrated its birthday. The emoticon :-) was invented by Carnegie Mellon professor Scott Fahlman. He was the first person to suggest conveying emotion through punctuation in online communications in 1982.

As a former English major, frequent emoji user, and someone whose spells her name !i$@ bee™, I'm all over the creative use of punctuation.

See this Business Insider link for more info.

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My name is Lisa, also known around the web as !i$@ bee™. I ran a blog for three years and, along with my education and work experience, turned the skills I learned building my blog into a career as a front-end software engineer and web developer.

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