Judging by email, Facebook and visitor numbers to this site, I still have an audience, even after having been out of the air for over a year. So here is an update.

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Now that I look at it – it turns out that I’ve blogged here for 10 years!

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I have a full-time job as a software developer – which means I’m coding, designing, solving problems in JavaScript and CSS, and debating with our team about how to make our software more usable.

This is obviously a huge change from volunteer work, meditation, online marketing and  self-publishing a book on karma. I find it surprisingly fun and adventurous, even though on one level this is simple a desk job. I’m happy to go to work, which is a completely new experience. I’m in a field where the only way to stay relevant is to keep learning, which suits me very well.

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I read Orlando: A Biography, a novel by Virginia Woolf (1) recently and she notes that we all have multiple (she says thousands) of personalities.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disseverment, and are trying to communicate, but when communication is established they fall silent.

While I would not put a number to the amount of ‘personalities’ I have inside – I have experienced a profound change in my personality. Similarly, I have trouble articulating my ‘new’ self. This is unsettling to live through as well as sometimes hard to keep up with for people around me – though in the main my family has been very supportive and my relationships with people have improved.

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I’m also happier and have signed up for acting classes.

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I may get back to blogging, but expect my topics to be things like gender, smart books and politics.

Notes

1. Orlando: A Biography, a novel by Virginia Woolf is a revolutionary novel that is a commentary on gender as well as literature and in has aspects of Science Fiction or Fantasy to it.