It's Monday, and Monday's don't have titles.

I was talking to my roommates over the weekend about applying for graduate residencies. One of them told me that his wife-to-be has to delete her Facebook account before she starts work as a teacher in a Washington state school district next fall. This is due to the recent problems with students adding teachers as friends and teachers making bad choices about what they were doing with those things (no details needed, you all get the news).

Then we talked about the fact that employers commonly look at those things before hiring, or to check up on people to make sure they're behaving. My roommate said that he'd surely delete all his accounts before applying to a residency program in medicine. I suppose I understand that, but to what end? Most people are worried about employers seeing who they are, what they do in their free time, with whom they spend time.......etc.

I guess this is a normal part of life. Kids don't always tell their parents everything they do (it wasn't until recently that I told my mom about the fireworks incident). Still, I feel like I've come to a place in my life where I don't have things to hide from future employers. I am by no means perfect, but I am generally not ashamed of the things I do when I'm with friends. I feel like I'm creating real relationships with people, and that if my future residency director were to check out my Facebook account, he wouldn't be deterred by my comments from friends, music tastes, photos, or the things I write on here, for that matter.

So, while online social networks come and go with fashion, and the ability to stay private will likely cause many people to stay away from such things in the future, here's what I think about the present: I'm pretty confident that those things will help me draw interest from those looking in to my services and abilities.

Otherwise, let me apologize for moments lacking thoughtfulness or discretion if I have offended. My intentions are not those.

Okay, let's talk about something else for a while....

Good point. Do you think she capitalized everything to make MEAL the acronym?


What?!? I wrote exactly what you told me to write!


I'm pretty sure Jackhammers are a cigarette brand. Right? Oh, they're not? Then I don't get it.


Lloyd: We don't usually pick up hitchhikers... but I'm-a gonna go with my instincts on this one. Saddle up partner!