I just got a hang up from a number from Northern New Jersey.
03/01/2006
I have a friend who we are going to call “Full-Spectrum Worrier.” Oh shit, I mean, let’s call him, “Random Guy Number 82394.” Yeah, so, the friend, “Random Guy Number 82394” noticed that in my post about the cack cack I used the on-line version of the internal newsletter at work. He pointed out that if I am soooo serious about my anonymity, I would want to change this.
This not the first time that my eagle-eyed (and scarily compulsive) stalker friend has picked up details that he suggested that I changed based upon my desire to be just a talking head on the Internet.
I guess I figure that there are thousand of people employed by my organization, and hundreds in the same part as I. I am not going to stress if some one figures out I work at…oh, can’t say that. His point was that it’s not the normal reader who will be picking apart the little pieces (a point made clear when I talked to her this morning and she was all huh wha? You work where?. I guess that the normal people aren’t trying to parse stalker type information from my blog) but the person who reads my blog and believes they have this innate connection to me.
I would love to call “Random Guy Number 82394” crazy, but I have had my moments with the crazy and I know what he says is mostly true. I promised I would go back and edit out all the information. By the end I was erasing anything that might give a clue as to where I work, including the name of the internal newsletter.
I also blurred out the faces on the people in the picture because I felt like it was the nice thing to do.
The moral of this here story is that I need to go eat lunch.
Next entry: This will never do
Previous entry: huh
Actually, the proper moral of the story is that you may or may not be going to partake in a meal of an unspecified nature.
(While you do (or not do) that, I will finish up burning my identity papers and deleting my account information, retrieving the new identity from the dead drop, and relocating to the safehouse. Crikes, burned by some girl again.)
You totally love it.
The thing is - it’s still pretty easy to have a guess at where you work (I won’t, for the sake of your privacy).
OHHH I love guessing games: let’s see, where do I work. Well I am not keeping it a secret that I live in Boston and work at a hospital…
Arbour Hospital
Boston Medical Center
Boston University Medical School
Beth Israel Medical Center
Brigham and Women’s
Cambridge Family Health
Cambridge Health Alliance
Caritas Christi Health Care
Chelsea Soldiers’ Home
Children’s Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dimock Community Health Center
Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
East Cambridge Health Center
East Somerville Health Center
Faulkner Hospital
Fenway Community Health Center
Franciscan Children’s Hospital
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center
Jewish Memorial Hospital
Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
Logan International Health Center
Martha Eliot Health Center
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Mass General Hospital
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Mattapan Community Health Center
MGH-Bunker Hill Health Center
MGH-Chelsea Health Center
MIT Medical
Mount Auburn Hospital
Mystic Health Center
New England Baptist Hospital
Tufts-New England Medical Center
North Cambridge Health Center
North End Community Health Center
Riverside Health Center
Roxbury Comprehensive CHC
Senior Health Center
Shriners Hospital-Children
Spaulding Rehab Hospital
Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
60+ Health Clinic
South Cove Community Health Center
South End Community Health Center
St. John of God Hospital
Stillman Infirmary
The Teen Connection
Teen Health Center
U.S. Veterans Hospital
U.S. Veterans Outpatient Clinic
Windsor Health Center
Youville Hospital & Rehabilitation
So DQ, what’s your guess?
PS are you going by J now? It’s confusing to me.
tee hee!
it’s funny ‘cause:
a) do people still use the word ‘infirmary’? because i’m going to call all hospitals that now because it’s old-school freshness :)
b) is Mystic really mystic?
c) Sydney Borum is a terrible name.
d) The Teen Connection is worse, because I’m picturing allegedly teen-friendly pseudo-rapping by middle-aged people in spandex trying to be ‘hep’ in their travelling condom demos in all the gymnatoriums of the Greater Boston Metropolitain Whatsiswherever.
and finally…
e) because SiteMeter shows where you’re at so it’s not really really a guessing game now is it? ;)
Right, so those of you whose site I visit, but not the random I’magonnatrackyoudownandmakeyoumyprettybride type of guy, and that is the point.
I regularly read few blogs and comment on even fewer. And, you and I know, that for those of you who email me, most of the females get my name pretty quickly, and eventually even the males. And here’s the thing, there was a reader who had the same info as I did on sitemeter, and we didn’t work for the same organization. It was confusing, for a while, before I figured it out, I thought someone at work was reading.
This was not a question of the danger I know, it’s all about that which lurks in the night.
Ah, Livi, you’ve spoilled my mysterious, spy-man persona. I was going to impress Somegirl with my detective skills.
And, Somegirl, J is the first letter of my real name. DQ sounds kinda cool, but I prefer ‘Dear boy’.
Ps - how come I don’t have anyone trying to track me down and make me their bride?
Dear Dear Boy,
Please, did you think I would not get it? Don’t blame Livi for your lack of brilliance. Now, if you were able to provide surveillance footage, then I would be impressed with your super sleuthing. I would even give you a spy name…like The Man With Brown Eyes (I think you would have brown eyes, genetically speaking considering your brown hair etc. But of course you could have blue eyes, highly unlikely, but possible. And of course you could use colored contact lenses, but that seems a bit too preeny for your personality).
I love it when people are all, hey someone from [insert name of semi-famous university here] has been reading my blog. I always fess up because I think it’s funny that my employer uses that extension. I had a conversation about it last night, there seems to be some logic to it, but not really. I think there must have been a backroom deal to avoid certain costs.
PS. I don’t know why Internet stalkers don’t hit on you, if you want, I will start a campaign to get you your very own marriage proposal. Is “Same Sex Marriage” legal in Australia? If not, you could always come to Boston and set up shop here. We LLLLOOOOOVVE our gays…I mean same sex couples.
i like how it jumped straight from marriage to same-sex marriage… why not skip out on your region and just come up here? apparently all y’all come up here for the stag partying anyway (eye-roll, eye-roll, let me tell you those menfolk i find wandering around here every weekend give your peeps a bad bad name…), and the official official marriage thing is legal here :P and the french, they know how to do it up right! ;)
so… you work on finding J a ‘partner’, i’ll work on the party!
lol, well I guess I am on the side of your friend in the paranoid department. I wouldn’t want anyone who read my blog to know where I work and possibly live but then again I belong to this mmo community like a Myspace…so people do know lots about me even though it just feels different..weird.
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