Time spent with cats is never wasted*

I’m still thinking about blogging, what we write on our blogs, and what I want to write about on this blog. Occasionally I wish I could write about things that are happening at work, but because I have not made much of an effort to disguise myself in any way I would probably be inviting trouble if I did. Besides, some of my workmates are aware of this blog, and even read it! The other blog that I have been maintaining for work – it’s a personal non-work-endorsed blog, but I only ever post Librarian Stuff on it – has now come to the attention of Our Supreme Leader, after The Boss’s Boss went and told her about it. That blog was no secret, so I guess it was only a matter of time before Our Supreme Leader heard about it (I don’t know if she’s actually looked at it, though).

I’m always amazed at the things people will reveal about themselves on their blogs. Like Huai Bin’s blog, sixthseal – many of his posts are reviews of the food he’s eaten, but he also writes about his drug experiences in great detail, even going to the extent of providing footage of his reactions to various ingested substances. (These I haven’t looked at because I find even movie portrayals of drug-taking somewhat gruesome, and I don’t want to give myself nightmares in case Huai Bin’s movies are too… err… realistic.) Apart from thinking that it’s sad that this guy wants oblivion so much, I also wonder why he’s not worried about getting arrested. I mean, looking at his archives, it seems he has tried everything he can get his hands on – he even takes panadeine in the hope that he can “catch a buzz”! Maybe the Malaysian police (Huai Bin is in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) aren’t too blog-savvy.

I am definitely going to keep Mooiness‘s advice (“don’t blog about work!”), and maybe even follow Chris Pirillo’s advice. In How Not to get Fired for Blogging he suggests: Should someone use the word “blog” in the office, tilt your head to the side and tell them that you don’t speak German. Heh.

Chris also suggests writing about cats, “a lot”. Unless this is Chris’s secret code for talking about something else (or maybe he hates cats), I shall interpret this as advice to write about innocuous topics that interest you. Like Hobbies or anything else under the sun. I don’t really want to write any more about Baubles the Cat than I already do. Even though I find her infinitely interesting, do you really want to know about her latest furball incident? 🙂

* This one is not from the spam poetry collection – it is attributed to May Sarton.

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