OK That’s Done
Posted By Kathleen David on March 9, 2006
I got the big sword of Damocles out from over my head today by getting a project done that I can talk about probably later this month. Now I have the small dagger of Damocles but that should be taken care of by the middle of next week. Then at the end off next week is LunaCon.
There was an interesting interview on NPR this morning about privacy and blogging.
From the summery at www.npr.org
Steve Inskeep talks to a 22-year-old graduate student about why he posts so much of his personal information online. Jonthon Coulson says he doesn’t consider silly profiles, political views and biographical data as private or personal. He actually savors feedback from his online
I heard this while waking up this morning and had to agree with most of what he had to say. I find it funny that he thought that his blog might hamper his ability to get a job. I can’t think of anything I have said that would make an employer questions whether they should hire me. I write it for me and my friends and family. This is probably the only time in my adult life that my family has really been able to keep up with me since I moved out. Someone once commented that this is will be a great thing for Caroline to read when she is older. I am of two minds about that. On the one hand I think it would be neat to leave her a record of a time that she may or may not remember but I wonder if it is going to be information overload for her considering that I tend to do about a post a day and many of them have Caroline info in them. It would give her some sort of picture about her mother if something should happen to me while she was still very young. I am going to continue to blog and let the population at large read about what is going on with me. I do agree with Mr. Coulson on one thing. I do like feedback.
I am grateful for this blog and all its varied readers.
Feedback? You like that squeal that comes out of speakers when a microphone is in proxim.m…. oh. Sorry. Been one of those days. You mean us responding to you feedback, uhm, yeah, that’s great too. 😉
The preceeding was sponsored by lack of sleep and a busy day, and the letter Q.
Hi, Kath. Speaking of interesting reading for Caroline, something we got for all four grandparents at Christmas this year was “A Grandparent’s Book” — it’s something for a grandparent to write lots of stuff in for the grandchild to eventually read. There’s all sorts of stuff in there — their own childhood, their schooling, what it was like raising their child (i.e. either me or Lisa), what they thought when they first met their child’s eventual spouse, when they first met their grandchild … lots of interesting stuff.
One of my four grandparents wrote something like that back around 1980, and I discovered it when we moved last year. Even though I knew my grandmother pretty well (she didn’t pass away until I was 26), the book was utterly fascinating reading. I’m hoping Katherine will feel the same way a couple of decades hence (even if all four grandparents are still around, which is also very much to be hoped for).
I just thought you’d like to know about it. Let me know if you want particulars and I’m happy to pass ’em along.
(And I don’t think anything I’ve written would make employers less likely to hire me, either. At least, I hope not!)
TWL
A “Grandparents’ book” . I’ll have to keep that in mind when we start have our grandbabies (a good few years away). I would have loved something like that for my kids, but both my parents were gone by the time we had our first. Luckily, my kids still have their paternal Nanny, and they are old enough to listen to and remember her stories.
Megan
There are actually tons of different grandparents’ books out there — the specific one I referenced looked like it was the best of the lot (or at least the best suited to us).
And yeah, I was amazed at how interesting I found it when I read the one my grandmother did. (My mother found it interesting, too — we’re scanning it all in for her so she has a copy.)
TWL