At Least They're Committed

It’s social media 101: Even if you use another identity, you’re still you. Anything you say can and will be held against you. Therefore, even though I don’t care who knows what about me and I never write on here about specifics at home or details at work, I always speak under the assumption that anyone might read it and everyone should be fine with it unless they’re from the New Mexico daily I worked for and then, like the Honey Badger, I don’t give a shit. That’s not to say I don’t second guess myself . . .

Lunchtime pinging with Brian went like this:

Brian says

gonna nuke a burrito right now

TR says

Well, i’m wondering if a three week old burrito in the fridge might still be good?

Brian says
Hmm

is it frozen?

TR says

no, just refrigerated.

I found them in there as leftovers yesterday.

Brian says

id pass on that

Oh, wait. That wasn’t it. Just a sec, here it is:

TR says

Oh, God, now I’m panicking.

Brian says

panicking?

TR says

yeah. so I stayed late and had a great chat with my boss yesterday, about music, etc. He was a little quiet this morning, though I blamed it on the pressure of the trip to washington.

Brian says

oh your fine

nothing to panic about

TR says

cracking up! Ok, I’ll just take you at your word.

Brian says

cracking up?

TR says

well, since you told me there was nothing to panic about.

I won’t panic.

Getting a bit cloudy here.

Brian says

okay

its all good

TR says

except someone went in last night and read my blog and i’m afraid it might have been him, but I didn’t write anything remotely about him, but it possibly was triggered by work stuff and so he could have taken it that way.

Brian says

how do you know someone went in and read it

i dont see any comments

TR says

the stats. if someone is subscribed, they don’t show up on the stats. if someone just goes through the link, it shows up on the dashboard.

Brian says

right

TR says

and there was no referrer and no search . . . so it’s someone familiar with the link.

maybe the same person who found it by googling ‘tripping raul’ a while back and has randomly gone back in to read it.

Brian says

who is that?

TR says

Isn’t this fun???

Brian says

lol

TR says

it doesn’t say, but that’s why i was wondering.

Brian says

i doubt it

TR says

OK, chilling out.

really, I don’t care that he knows what shit I went through in Farmington. In fact, it’d probably answer a few questions about why I’m weird and he already does know some of it. I just get paranoid that he’d take it wrong, like, personalize it. 

which, quite honestly, even if he were reading my blog would be a real stretch. Men are inherently literal.

Brian says

even if he was reading it i dont think he’d ever bring it up

youd really never know if he was reading it

TR says

I know he would never bring it up. He’s just one of the people here I can trust somewhat, I’d take a bullet for him and I don’t want to piss him off (in addition to him being my boss).

Brian says

sure

ohh that sounds like a great blog post

TR says

what’s that?

Brian says

about wondering if your boss is reading this and that you trust emm and dont want to piss him off etc etc

TR says

hahahahahaha! OMG! I totally love how you think!

Brian says

🙂

TR says

Now I’m giggling. You’re brilliant!

So how was the burrito?

There you have it. It would seem that even being cautious while posting content under another identity doesn’t eliminate apprehension concerning how it could be interpreted. With that understanding and the knowledge that I’m not going to change how approach this blog, I’d simply ask you take it for what it’s worth and read on.