2010 April 22 » Hubman's Hangout

[The original When Worlds Collide post can be found here. It involves Emmy, her husband Garbonzo and my office wife from grad school meeting!]

I can’t remember when I started my Facebook page (or if I did, it might have been Veronica who set up my account), but it’s always been the vanilla side of “Hubman”. Among my friends, besides many family members, there are old friends from childhood and high school, college buddies, including the guys responsible for Veronica and I meeting, and some professional colleagues.

For a while, I’ve been ignoring my Facebook account. Frankly, between blogs and my Twitter account, Facebook was just too damn boring. When I saw the Facebook group “I was gonna post a status, then I remembered I have family on faceboook..”, I knew I had to join!! At the same time, my employer started blocking a number of social networking websites. Recently they lifted some of those website restrictions and I can visit Facebook from work, so I’ve starting using it again. A quick visit to see what some friends are up to and leave comment here or there is a nice mental break sometimes. At least until I see one too many Farmville updates…

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As I’ve gotten to know some blogger friends, and developed an implicit trust in their ability to keep “Hubman” and the real me separate, we’ve become Facebook friends. I’ve occasionally wondered if any family members look at my status updates and wonder who some of the other people are. But if they ever ask, between the various schools that Veronica and I have attended in different states and my prior military service, it’s not too difficult to come up with a plausible explanation as to how I know someone from some other part of the country.

Thursday morning I updated my status, something about the ungodly hour I was up at and why. Within a few hours there was a comment from my dad, followed by comments from 3 blogger friends and “likes” from a girl I’ve known since we went to Sunday School together 30 yrs ago and a friend from a local college.

I know I’m not the only one with a mix of naughty/blogger and vanilla/real-life friends on Facebook. But does anyone else alternately cringe and grin when they see comments from a parent and an extra-marital lover alongside each other? Or is it just me?

I really feel like I’ve been burning the candle at both ends this past week.

Work is really busy and stressful, getting ready for a conference next week. Sure, I’ll get to spend 5 days in Anaheim, but I have 2 presentations to give and some other work to help my boss, who has a significant leadership role in the organization that puts on the conference.

If you follow me on Twitter, you might have read that I have a new computer. This is a very good thing, even better is that I made the change to a Mac, my first one. So I’m on a bit of a learning curve, figuring everything out. On top of that, I haven’t figured out a workflow for downloading, organizing, and editing pictures for my Project 365.

I feel like I’m really behind in correspondence with some of my blogger friends. I get a nice long thoughtful message from someone and I can’t muster more than a few sentences in return.

I have a half dozen posts started or in my head but can’t find the time and/or energy to write them.

Everywhere I look, it seems like there is something that needs to be done staring back at me.

But this is all I want to do once the evening hits. Can I get a backrub from someone? Please?

Now if this isn’t one of the whiniest posts I’ve ever written, I don’t know what is! If you’d like something a little naughtier, check out my first Wanton Wednesday post from yesterday