When I was little, I used to think teachers lived at school and then when I would see them somewhere outside of school, I would think it was weird. It's sort of the same with people that I work with...I mean, sure, I don't think these people live in the office but I also don't know anything else about them, except they work in the same office as I do.
I got to thinking about this earlier, as a man who works a few offices down from me gave me a rose and then the woman I was speaking to explained that he breeds roses and has won awards for them...Now, I don't work for this guy and I don't know much about him in general but I would not have guessed him to be a gardener so I thought that was really cool. Not, of course, that that means gardeners have telltale signs, but it wasn't something that had crossed my mind. I mean, another man in the office used to be an Equity actor, but I could have guessed that because I join him in singing showtunes every now and then...But I suppose if I had never spoke to him, I would not have known that.
People were intrigued to find out that I work on shows after work...though it is obvious that I love the theatre from looking at my cubicle which is papered with postcards from shows I've done and seen...but if someone didn't speak to me on a regular absis, they wouldn't have known that...
So I suppose we wait for after office hours to let our own, individual idenitites come out.
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