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So I have a coworker who has a 2nd job as a bartender. I'm genuinely attracted to him, and am all about this guy. I'm playing it safe though, because in the end we are still coworkers after all. I do get the feeling that he may like me as well, but I'm not entirely sure. I know he's single. I catch him looking in my direction all the time and as soon as I turn his way he turns his head the other way. When we talk, he looks at me in that way that we all know makes us feel a certain way, flirty eyes. He teases me all the time and I sass him and make him laugh--he gives me nicknames. So the other day, I asked him what drink he would recommend for my 21st birthday coming up, since he is also a bartender. He thought about it for a second, and said, for you, i would recommend this drink, and went on to describe how it was made. I asked if I was able to have this drink made anywhere. He looked down, his voice got kind of low and quiet, and said, no, only I know how to make it, so you would have to come to my bar, I'd make it for you. And I felt like for a moment he was trying to get something across, but again, i could be imagining because I like him. I told him how it's the sweet drinks that get you pretty good, and he simply smiled and said, I know. So, long story short, could this mean anything? He could've recommended something common, but instead went out of his way to recommend something only he knows so that I'd go to his bar. Maybe he wants to see me hammered, maybe he wants business, I don't want to jump to conclusions haha. I could be reading stuff that isn't there simply because of my attraction. Thanks for reading.

Or are you just stone-faced around everything?

I was skipping around the internet and found this article, with a little about the genetics of smiling and thought it was kind of interesting, and maybe kind of ironic.

For those not planning on reading this, it's pretty much
> 5HTTLPR gene is involved in feelings. Short version of it = negative feelings, long version = less negative feelings. People with 2 short alleles = more prone to depressive feelings.
> but they also suggest that people with short alleles tend to experience more intensity in their feelings - their positives are really positive and their negatives are really negative.
> also noticed that the area of the brain connected with emotions, the thalamus, is larger in people with 2 short alleles.
> something like that. anyways.

Then I realized that my thalamus must be huge, because I find myself grinning at everything and crying... also at everything.

So I guess they're not wrong when they say "people that smile the brightest are sometimes the saddest".

So there is this dude I work with, and I like him a great deal. Have for some time. And HE actually admitted that he would have already asked me out on a date, but he's older than me, and is having car troubles so can't take me anywhere anyway currently. That made me super happy, but then I started to worry that maybe he was just saying that because he knew it'd make my heart melt and to keep me strung along... I'm pretty transparent when it comes to my emotions. But I don't think he'd do that.

And then, the other day I realized that he called me "Dear". I walked up to him, he smiled and said "Yes Dear?" Even though he knows full well I usually only go back to his area to just see him for a minute. It sounded so natural coming from him. And he seemed completely at ease saying it. And then now he's just kept saying it. He hasn't said my name in days because he just calls me dear now. Does this mean anything do you think? Or am I just reading WAY too into this and stressing myself out over nothing?