| Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 05:39 pm I meant to mention |
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My LJ has been discovered by my classmates (Sup Chris G!), which, in the wake of a very recent story about a local teacher being fired for some tiny nothing pictures she had on facebook (posing with a glass of wine in Italy, and a beer in London, while on a European tour), has me a bit concerned. It's not necessarily that I'm concerned that my classmates (at least not those ones) would sell me out somehow, it's that I am cognizant of the necessity of remembering what a stranger in a strange land I am down here in Georgia.
I am a big proponent of living one's life out loud, with transparency, with a firm sense of yourself, of who you are, what you care about, what you believe in, and what you stand for. I'm a retired goth girl, a drinker, a trekkie, a crazy liberal, a math n science nerd, and a pretty gross pervert; those things are all okay with me; I like them being on the record. Everyone should have a forum in which to talk about herself, and this one has been mine for over seven years. However, I also have to apply for internships in a week's time, in the deep red south.
So I suppose I am going to swallow my values a little bit and lock it all down, and delete a lot of my info page. I've locked everything down to friends-only on facebook, although I'm not sure it's enough; in a very competitive field, it's unfortunately not always easy to tell who your friends are, especially in situations where they need only be "internet brave" to tear you down. Having a trusting nature may not do me any favors.
So it's time to conceal some of my identity, at least for awhile. Here's to the death of fun.
I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. Wish me luck on finals!
-JR |
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