Your past present

As you may have noticed, I've linked my Blogger blog with my facebook profile so I can "write once and post twice," so to speak. In order to make this comfortable for myself, I read through all my old Blogger posts and removed references to things I didn't really want certain people reading. Almost exclusively these deleted references were related to my work.

I'm not comfortable having facebook friends who I work with on a day-to-day basis. I don't really have a good reason why. I guess it just seems a little strange to me to think of people I work with reading my whimsical and occasionally grumpy status updates. "Patti is wishing she didn't have to go to work today" isn't really the kind of thing a manager, even as low-level a manger as I am, wants other office denizens reading or knowing about.

So far, to my relief, no one I work with has asked me to add them as a friend. A couple I used to have, and I did add them, but I don't mind that...I don't see them at the office every day anymore.

Anyway...all this is to say that I had to read through all my old Blogger posts recently, and it was quite interesting. For one thing, it's amazing how much stuff you forget, even in a relatively short period of time. Some of my posts described incidents or emotions I'd totally forgotten about, some funny, some sad, some indifferent. Having an electronic memory like this is kind of cool.

It was also interesting to note, from my current perspective in "the future" how events actually turned out that I was speculating about quite some time ago. It was interesting to see how well I predicted certain things.

It's neat to see get a glimpse of myself before a transformation took place too. Before going to Halifax I was uncertain, afraid, not at all sure if I was up to the task before me. Now I know that I was up to it, and I have the newfound confidence that came as a result.

I had started the blog as a way for my mother and my friends to keep up with what was going on with me while I lived so far from home for a year. Now it's just a repository for thoughts and opinions and sometimes a diary of events. I'm sure that in a couple of years I'll look back again at the things I'm blogging about now and find forgotten memories and confirmations, good or bad, of hopes and dreams I once had.

But still...I won't be writing about work stuff in too much detail ;-)