on the DL

I can’t believe how much I’ve been updating lately. I think it’s true that any activity leads to more of that activity. It’s like a theory I have about sex where if you abstain for a while it becomes less important. But the minute you go for it again you can’t get enough and you feel compelled to do it all the time. Look at me talking about sex and writing habits like they’re a universal condition instead of my own private problem.

Anyway, I’ve been working a lot lately, and I finally seem to be finding a groove. Which of course means that it will be disrupted because that’s what happens when I get comfortable.

Eli took Joey to the park yesterday afternoon so I could work for a couple of hours before our company came over in the evening. It was a relief to have the house to myself, and I celebrated by turning the stereo up loud and cranking out a bunch of articles. If you’re wondering what the articles are about or where you can read them, I’m sorry to say that this is a ghostwriting gig and I’ve signed a contract that lets the buyer remove my name and edit the articles as they see fit. I know there are writers out there who think that this is not a legitimate writing job, but rather a skanky, low-rate, rent-a-writer gig that gives a bad name to the art of writing. Fortunately, I don’t look at content jobs like that. Maybe I’m just too greedy. I see it as money in the bank and if the person is paying me well enough, they can remove every noun from the article if they like and I won’t complain one tiny bit about my art being sacrificed (real writers can be terribly dramatic).

Things like this make me glad I’m not a real writer.

Anyway, aside from the gritty pseudo-writing jobs I’m doing to help pay the bills (oh, who am I kidding, I’m saving for an iPod), I’ve also been submitting articles to various web-based publications. I’ve had several things accepted and published but the only problem with that is I write my journal under a pseudonym (I hope this isn’t a surprise to anyone) so it makes it hard to advertise my stuff here.

I know I shouldn’t be ashamed of my blog, and I’m not. I don’t write too much here that anyone who knows me in life would be surprised about. The thing that keeps me on the down low is that I can’t stand to think of being judged professionally by what I write here. Much like how I wouldn’t go into an interview casually as though I’m sitting down for a chat with a friend, I wouldn’t want my future possible employer knowing everything about my personal life and the things that bounce around in my head, and use that to make a judgment about my science. This would probably be different if I worked in a creative field, but I don’t. I work in a field where having a personality is secondary to having good analytical skills and being smart.

And maybe that’s just it. Maybe smart people don’t do this kind of thing.
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Comments

[hubs]

that's an awfully large add you have plopped in there.