I saw a man at Barnes and Noble the other day, standing in the "Social Studies" section. He had a full beard and glasses. The first thing that popped into my head upon seeing him was "He might be a Raëlian!". I am uncertain what caused me to think this.

I heard someone the other day say to "be yourself". This caused me to ponder, and eventually come to the conclustion that I'm not quite sure what "myself" is. I often find myself "choosing" a personality for a situation, to some extent. Going to work on a client's computer at work? I adopt a measured, soothing tone and an easygoing attitude. Around Chris, I try to be logical, yet free-er with my speech and sense of humor. In unfamiliar situations, I become quiet until I pick up how the other people are acting - and then I try to emulate them. This got me to thinking...if I can choose how to be, how do I be myself? On a side note, I usually tend to not be listening to music when I post entries. I generally pick out something right at the end that feels right to describe my mood.

One of the downsides of doing computer work is that nobody really "gets" it when you announce your latest victory over the technological forces of mayhem. In general, the conversations go something like this:

You: ...and I couldn't figure out what was causing it to do that, until I realized that in the USERS domain, nobody has rights to access that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT unless they're an Administrator, which was a totally easy fix!

Them: ...what's a domain?

Oh well. At least they like me here. I've gotten two letters from clients who were really really happy that I got their computers up and working - happy enough that a few corporate people took notice and gave me attaboys. Woo!