Maybe she's really good at really bad poetry. That may be an oxymoron of some kind, not sure.
Positive feedback can be a powerful force.
I can see how it would be a bit unsettling but people will be people.
Hummm...
*looks at festivals he is going to in June*
www.graspop.be
www.downloadfestival.co.uk
And, yes - Mr Manson is playing the latter! Frankly, I'm not a huge fan but he puts on a hell of a good stage show. Saw him at Leeds maybe 5 years back when I was still in my 20's...
Dear Sane Scientist,
As you may know already I have an interest in blogs about work.
I started to look at such blogs two years, but for reasons I won’t bore you with, prevented me from developing the project beyond a questionnaire exercise.
I am now, finally, at a stage where I can spend enough time researching a phenomenon I find very interesting and expect others to do so when I get around to telling them!
So, why I am telling you this?
Well, I’m looking for some input into a research project that investigates work-related blogs – something that hardly anyone has written about before.
I have no intention of ‘outing’, or indicating in any way, any blogger.
The paper is not about sensationalising blogs.
It’s more to do with exploring the significance of a wider emerging trend of ‘ordinary’ people exploiting the web for any number of reasons.
At this stage I would like to first of all request your permission to use excerpts from your blog for my paper.
If you do allow me to do this I promise to consult with you on what I intend to use and how I intend to use it.
Any other feedback or direction from you would be welcomed.
To be more specific, and based on what several sources have said out such blogs in the past (newspapers, trade journals and academics), I’m looking for blog entries that cover the following themes:
1) Postings that would be viewed by your employer, or any other employer, as some sort of nuisance to them.
2) Postings that you believe could lead to disciplinary action if your employer knew about what you were doing (especially if you post anonymously).
3) Postings that offer an ‘honest’ review of how you are expected to work (e.g. outlining ridiculous practices or expectations from management, etc.).
4) Postings that could be viewed as being news from the workplace or ‘spilling the beans’ on a certain work-related matter that you feel should be in the public domain.
5) Postings that you feel could shape public opinion about what you do or how your job has an impact on others, even if your blog is read by a small number of people.
6) Postings that are about you, whether you intended at the onset to do it or not, revealing aspects of your job that others could learn from, i.e. tricks of the trade or tacit knowledge.
7) Postings that reflect the possibility of loneliness at work, i.e. writing in a manner that indicates you wish you had more support or chance to discuss matters with others at work.
Postings that are clearly about trying to get one over on management, i.e. resistance.
Some of these requests may appear similar or vague and it’s unlikely that you will be able to provide examples of all of the above, but any examples of any category will be appreciated.
Like I said I before, posting can (and will be) changed in a manner that protects your or anyone else’s identity.
I should also say while I’m at it that I am looking for bloggers to make a contribution
Hi! For some reason, I can identify with Jane! Like her, I'm pretty well educated, with a grown up job, my own house but I guess maybe the music I like and my hobbies aren't the sort that 30-somethings should be into. But who says so?? Why should Jane conform like everyone else? Just because you hit 30, you don't have to start acting like your parents - do you? 
I went to my first festival last year (Leeds) and was pleasantly surprised to find that there were a huge number of 'oldies' in their 30s and 40s enjoying themselves and being themselves.
My mates from uni? They couldn't make it cos they couldn't get babysitters...
Interesting blog anyway!
I hit 32, sold the house I owned, quit the comfy job I had and bought a 1-way ticket to Thailand.
When my parents were 30 they had a screaming little brat to look after...
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