it’s a cultural disconnect

[marcicat]

So, all my coworkers think I’m really boring. This is, as far as I can tell, based on two things.

1. I’m really boring.

2. The parts of me that aren’t boring are not in the day-to-day cultural context of my coworkers. For instance, a sample conversation:

Coworker: So, did you do anything fun on your day off?
Me: My sister and I got metaquoted; that was awesome.
Coworker: …

(In reality, I just say, “no, not really,” because I figure right now ‘boring’ trumps ‘weird’ on the social scale of my workplace.)

It’s not that I *want* my coworkers to be curious about my online presence. It’s just that I sort of wish my “no, not really” somehow gave off a ‘I’m very interesting and mysterious with my mysterious secret activities’ as opposed to ‘I’m so dull even I don’t care about what I do; I just sit and stare at the wall all evening.’

(On the other hand, I can hardly say, “well, I spent a while writing a post about you and then publishing it online where anyone in the whole world can read it.” Yeah. Awkward.)

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