4 posts tagged “blog”
Go read a Flamingo Dancer retrospective here. You will most certainly not regret it.
Over the last six months or so, some of you have probably (not) noticed that I've been using the privacy restriction features on Vox for this blog. In short, if you aren't in my "neighborhood", the chances are that you've noticed a significant decrease in work-related posts.
I did a lot of thinking some time ago. While all names are changed to protect the ignorant/stupid/malicious, my name (and those of friends) appears nowhere on this blog, I've never mentioned the name of the bookstore chain for which I work (though it's probably a bit obvious), no one in real life would link me to the screen name "ubi caritas"...this is still the internet. My job has a firm no-blog policy, and however much I might fuss about my job, I still like it and like the "employment" thing, too.
I have toyed with the idea of setting up a more anonymous and non-vox blog: one that doesn't have the "social network" aspect, one on which my picture does not appear, and one from which no one could possibly find me on Facebook and trace back to the blog or vice versa. If I were to do that, I could tell a lot more stories: no one would have to know in what area of the country I live (I mean, how many bookstores are there in Fort Worth? Frankly, I've given anyone out there enough information to find me--and that concerns me a little), I could describe more situations as they happen rather than write them up and spend a good bit of time changing them to make them less obviously my store...there is definite appeal.
On the other hand, I like and value the comments that many of you make here. I don't want to slip off into the blogosphere without telling some of you where I go. I suspect that if I decided to do that (and it's far from decided, I assure you--I still can't decide) I'd send those of you I "know" fairly well (comments to one anothers' blogs and/or exchanged PMs) the link to the new place.
Just thinking aloud here. Feel free to toss out any suggestions!
I posted a link a little while ago to Miss Kitty over at Educated and Poor. See, she--well, her boyfriend--rescued a puppy. A most pathetic critter was this puppy: bony, sad, scared, mange-ridden, wormy, smelly.
We'll see how this goes. As y'all might have noticed, my posts have slowed drastically in the last couple of weeks. I've been really busy with school; papers and fugues and assignments and oh, yeah, music--which is why I'm doing all this anyway--are all needing to be completed or learned NOW.
Work has been a hair stressful, as they've cut everybody's hours drastically. Those hour cuts mean that everyone is about as short-tempered as we are short-staffed. We're cranky because each person is trying to do the work of two or three people, management is cranky because we're not meeting our sales plan (something like 5% more than we made last year--NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, people!) and they have to help with tasks like shelving, and the customers are a whole new level of snippy because they're worried about spending any money in this economy. The fact that they're having to wait for customer service because of our low staffing just isn't helping.
Because of my hours at work being cut to 50%, I've been working extra time at a school job and picking up the occasional odd petsitting or woodcutting (if you're willing to pick up and cut wood yourself, you can sell it for $100 or so a cord) job. I'm fortunate to have those options--many of my coworkers don't, and I really don't know how they're living on $80-$120 or so a week--but it means that I'm busier.
I'm even behind on emails, ferpetessake! I have several emails--none urgent, but one important--that I've meant to answer for a week but haven't had the time.
In short, I'm going to try to post every day this month, and I'll see how it goes. I do have some ideas for some "weekly feature" style posts, and I also have some work stories that I desperately want to type up for the amusement of readers, but then again, there's the whole "time" thing.
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Oh, and I just noticed that I've been blogging for a bit over a year now. October 11 of '07 was the date of my first post. I honestly didn't believe that I'd blog for this long, or that I'd "meet" as many cool people doing this as I have.
I've noted that I haven't blogged much about music, and I've thought about why that is. I think it's because I find it difficult to write coherently about something that is so precious to me. I feel so much about it, but I have a hard time putting those thoughts and feelings--awe, joy, amazement, discovery--into words.
