No One Cares What I Had for Lunch? Tough

Hey folks -- the title of this entry comes from a book by blogger & author Maggie Mason (who apparently had a baby just last week -- congratulations) that Editor Jeff mentioned a while back.

I still haven't read the book yet, but I'm ambivalent about the title, since it implies an over-sensitivity to reader opinions.

For better or worse, I'm not like most bloggers (at least in this blog), because I'm explicitly blogging for an audience (like most other corporate bloggers).

However, for regular folks, this shouldn't be a consideration -- if you blog about something mundane, it doesn't mean anyone else has to read it. I think there's a difference between caring about your readers, and writing for them.

So, yes, I'm going to blog about my lunch.

There have been signs on campus this month for fresh-made sushi at the HQ cafeteria:

Now, mind you, we're not Google (or "Googe", as some might have thought yesterday), so we have to, like, actually pay for our lunches. And the Wegman's mega-market across the street also has a sushi chef. But it's a nice change of pace:

Sushi setup.  The order tickets are stacking up.

Sushi chef at work.

Now, here I am, back at my desk with my Sushi Regular meal. You can see me using the miso soup container lid as a dish for my soy sauce/wasabi concoction. Clever, yes?

Of course, the predictable happened moments later:

Oh well.

On a photo note, I (mostly) went with 375 pixel-wide photos (depending on your monitor size and settings, your standard three-column Journal can take about 500 pixel-wide photos without starting to cause problems), since a post with 5 photos is going to get pretty big as it is. (As a rule of thumb, there are 72 pixels in an inch.)

The sushi was pretty standard, but good. It's pretty mainstream these days, but I know there are still holdouts -- anyone out there vehemently pro- or anti-sushi?

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: aol, aol hq, sushi, lunch, corporate blogging, maggie mason, photos, spillage