aasna: Exactly right – vanity combined with extreme insecurity can be a terrible burden. But if I can’t have less of the latter, I’ll settle for more of the former.
Coolness! FTR, I’m originally from the Reading, PA area, despite my current extra-American locale.**
“Well you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay…”
Tir is correct in that it was intended as j-r-8 (my initials plus a filler character), but I have no objections to other pronunciations (“gyrate”, “junior-eight”, “Throat-Warbler-Mangrove”, etc.), visualized or vocalized, as long as I know it means me.