Context.

Okay. You people know I am strange. And I am. Purposefully so. I have this habit of switching between various accents at random when I'm with my friends, so at one moment I might be Cockney, the next Bela Lugosi, the next "in Soviet Russia, _____ gets YOU", and so on.

We're all products of our environments. So let me show you mine. =D

Also, I am perhaps the only college student to have Facebook conversations with both of his parents AND one aunt in the same day, two of them at the same time, and was the one to initiate all three. For some reason a lot of people I know hate their parents. I guess I'm just lucky.

Transcript of parts of the chat with my mother follow.

Also, for reference, a LOT of people in my family have names beginning with A. Everyone in my immediate family, one of my aunts, and . . . it's difficult to edit everything and still keep context, so I'll make notes if I need to.