It has been quite a few weeks since I wrote in my blog. Almost six weeks. And it has not been because I had nothing to say, although I will admit to not actually writing down all the stray thoughts that wandered through the fevered rumblings that has passed as my brain this last few weeks. My main (and really only) excuse is that the last nearly two months have been the hottest and stickiest I have ever experienced in Perth that I can recall, and being in a situation where work is a pleasant controlled environment but the journey home, and home itself, are hot and sticky and enervating … it does not encourage a positive attitude to sitting at a computer some more to compose a stray thought or two into sensibility. * sigh *
All of which would suggest that I haven't been thinking much about what is happening to my delusion of growing up one day and really being a Librarian. Which is not quite true.

There is one thing that I never really understood at university. I would frequently get comments on work about it being somewhat “chatty” in style. Thinking back over what I've learnt this last few weeks I can now see what was meant a little more clearly. The thing is, I have discovered this bizarre version of English called “Business Language” that I am supposed to use when communicating in a business situation. Now not having had much life experience with this form of English over the previous twenty years while raising my offspring, I found myself in a most confusing situation when told that “you can’t say that! It’s not very business like!” But unlike previous situations, this time someone explained WHY it was not considered business like – apparently being ‘familiar’ can be a cardinal sin.

But I still don’t understand why the removal of personal pronouns and converting everything into operative-less sentences makes one’s Curriculum Vitae more easily understood! Surely one is telling one’s own history? Not reciting the number of occasions one has battled the “giants” or sneaked past the “sirens” in order to earn ones crust?!
But that is the way the world seems to work … so that is how I am going to have to learn how to speak and write …
Eventually !