In linguistics class, I learned that our brains do this thing called priming, which means that after you hear the word “bread”, you’re able to recognize the word “butter” more quickly, because you’ve already started thinking about things related to bread.

Today, I was watching the news, and they had a story about a tattoo parlor. Well, apparently, my brain has decided to reclassify the word “tattoo”, so instead of “tattoo” being a primer for words like “ink” and “skin”, it’s now a primer for words like “roarke” and “island”.

I watched the pilot of Designing Women today (because Scott Bakula). Early on in the episode, Julia sits down and puts her head on her desk. In front of her, there’s this elaborate gold box.

…which once sat on Mr. Roarke’s desk in his office on Fantasy Island.

Fantasy Island ended in 1984, and Designing Women began in 1986, and they’re both Columbia Pictures Television productions.

This is my life, okay.