Quote Originally Posted by Lena View Post
Oh, I have to apologize, Joy. That's perhaps the only thing I I don't like about this site. People are faceless here. I definitely feel uncomfortable being unaware of a person's gender, country of living, native language, target language, age (at least approximately, like 20-30 or 30-40).

Btw, the Russian language has its advantages over English in this regard. If Joy were Russian she would say in her post #13

После того, как я вчера вернулась, я думаю, я так наелась, что заснула.

instead of the original

After I got back last night I think I ate so much that I was falling asleep.

And I would be certain of her gender.
That is something that you will get used to after a while. I actually welcomed it when I was learning English. My first language is Spanish and those words have gender.