When I first started this blog in July, I imagined it would be important to maintain anonymity. I'm sure I had a reason, but I just don't remember it. Maybe I was afraid people would point to me in my favorite pizzeria and say: "Look! The woman with Supreme Paper Mess!" And my identity would forever be linked to my inability to file promptly.
This is before I realized the only people who read my blog were Stacy, the Designated Work Place Neatnik, her mother, my sister in-law, her sister, and my own sister. Which is to say I've been able to eat my pineapple-and-onion extra thin crust pretty much undisturbed, even on 1/2-off pizza Wednesdays.
As I continued on my Quest and with my blog, I began, in turn, reading more blogs and I always found myself searching for the About Me page, without any thought of heckling the blogger or disrupting their dinner. The great writer Joan Didion once wrote that people don't trust the tale until they know the teller, and I suppose that was what was behind my desire to see who was writing what blog. It's just nice to be able to put the face with the words.
So here's a photo Alpay took of me this summer; I'd include a more recent one but it's hard to smile when the weather's -17. I'm pretty much the same now as I was then, only then I had Summer Hair, which is fake and lighter, and now I have Winter Hair, which is also fake but deeper. I'm a big believer in season-appropriate fake hair color.
I've added the picture and an "About Me" page on the navigation bar, in which I assert my qualification for writing a organization blog, even though I'm not particularly organized. Other recent changes include a better search engine--type in any word in the bar near the top of the right-hand column, and it will find every post in which the word occurs, unlike the previous search bar. There's also a super-cool new comment feature that allows you to post your picture or "avatar" when you post a comment; see the latest comment exchange here on the Quest for a look-see.
When I first started this blog, I didn't publicize my email address--not so much because I was afraid people would email me and write, "I can't believe you have such a stupid system for organizing receipts" (although this did, in fact, worry me), but because I was hoping to encourage the exchange of comments on the Quest, the better to build a sense of community. Having emailed other bloggers privately, however, I can understand how there are times you want to keep an exchange private. So I got busy and secured an email address everyone can remember: organizationquest@gmail dot com. Just exchange a period for the word "dot," get rid of any spaces and there you go. Readers may not be lining up to email me, but automatic spammers may very well be, and so it pays to be careful.