OK so I am still in the process of separating myself from my old blog, the Dope, on blogger.com ( I have been importing and exporting and updating Flickr and installing new widgets…SIGH! Who even reads this thing?! ). At the blogger brunch, we had a brief discussion about the separation of the professional self with the personal self online – is it necessary to create 2 separate identities for work and for play, or can the two be blurred in the Web 2.0 world? For Jeremiah, web marketer and analyst, well, its his job to use the web tools out there, so he feels his personal life and professional are one on the net. Len from EMC, on the other hand, didn’t hire someone who was well-qualified on paper, after googling and finding her rather suspect Facebook postings.

I have struggled over the last few months as to whether to continue posting publicly about personal events and opinions. For the most part, the students I teach are interested in my personal life…they ask me about my culture, my family, what high school was like for me, college life, and if I have a boyfriend and if not why not, and where do I shop, and just normal getting-to-know-you kinds of questions. But it just takes that one student who for whatever reason, even as a harmless joke, finds the goofy picture of their teacher, or pulls a quote from her blog out of context and…front page news?! Am I saying that I really have that exciting of a life that I would make front page news?! Ah these days, especially, not so much. But I knew I was posting with caution before, and at times that kindof took the fun out it.

SO for the followers from blogspot, the Dope does indeed live on, albeit repurposed and refocused. No more commentary on Britney’s bad behavior, or weak attempts at explaining away the IRISH’s pathetic record on Gamedays this season, or especially the hopeless single scene in Boston…There is much more hope in education – especially with technology! And the Boss. OK that’s a stretch BUT since the theme of hope prevails here, I can not NOT post about him, as he is the inspiration behind it. Especially since I just caught the live feed of 3 songs from his “Radio Nowhere” concert in New Jersey. I’ll be attending in November in Boston. Both nights. Very excited.

So welcome back!

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