A friend will be coming over for dinner around seven, so very shortly I need to get started on the cooking as I'm preparing Italian tonight and everything will be homemade, including the bread. Ugh. That's going to be a chore. But first I'm going to have a coffee and hammer out a few lines on here. This ordered sequence reveals a bit about my daily priorities. Coffee before all else.
I suppose the only real thing of interest is that I finally posted my pic on my blogger profile, an image taken a few weeks ago whilst in Honduras. Not all that significant of an event, really; the only thing it does is personalize the blog just a bit which increases the chances of one of my employees waltzing into the office one moring with a few printed off blog entries. Though I greatly value my privacy, I'm at the point now where I do not particularly care if colleagues know more about me than the carefully-screen infomation I choose to reveal around the office. Maintaining that impenetrable wall of separation between work life and personal life has become tedious and altogether impractical, particuarly considering the extent to which I've carried it in the past. While I'm certainly not going to make my personal life a topic of conversation around the office, I'm no longer going to worry too much if a few breaches occur in that wall. So I suppose as insignificant as posting my pic on here is, it's symbolic in many ways of a certain course shift in the river of my thinking.
4 comments:
Nice pic, Norm. You look a lot like I pictured you...so where's the one with you in the Jeep?
*blushes* Thanks for the compliment, Freddy.
Kim...oh just wait a bit as I'm finally going to get around to procuring the new big tires for the Jeep. And THEN I'll post the requested pic. *evil laugh*
Hmm.. I am not sure whether you're right in that it is a breaking down of the work/personal wall. I think its more breaking down the wall of being anonymous with everyone, work mates or not.
When you blog anonymously, you are your words only. People judge you by your thoughts and feelings that sit on screen rather than firstly, check your picture out, base their views on you physically (with their own pre-conceived ideas about physical attributes, beauty etc), and then see what you have to say afterwards.
Its like the moment when a person gives their photo to someone via internet dating. The relationship is bound to change. Its the generation we live in sadly.
Just my random thoughts....thats all. :)
Kate...you are absolutely correct in that breaking down that wall is broader than the mentioned "work and personal lives" thing. The latter is but a potential subset of the bigger picture that may or may not occur.
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