Nervous.

27 February 08 | 3 comments

I know that we were grilled about the state of our sex life before we were permitted to adopt kids (no, really) but…

It REALLY makes me nervous to have naughty emails to/from my husband sitting right next to polite emails to our social worker.

Like I might accidentally hit “reply” to Coffee and have the entire thing skip up a line and our social worker, instead of an update on The Boys, will get an eye-full of words that are distinctly UN-Mommy-like and UN-Daddy-like.

Technology: Helping The Paranoid Keep It Real.

  1. R.’s avatar

    R. on 27 February 08 at 8:01 pm

    Use a different email account for the two. If you are using a web-based email client you can have two instances of firefox open to different accounts as long as you use different firefox profiles.

    Example:

    Open the profile manager:

    firefox -ProfileManager

    Make two profiles:
    Email1
    Email2

    In your window manager create two different icons, links, short-cuts, menu items or whatever.

    One icon executes this:
    firefox -a email1 -p Email1

    The other icon executes this:
    firefox -a email2 -p Email2

    Tada!

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  2. Sylvain’s avatar

    Sylvain on 27 February 08 at 10:31 pm

    Oh I freak out like this all the time at work. That split second after you hit send and think “OMYGOD please tell me I sent that to the right people”.

    And remember, for all you know your case worker likes to dress up in a rubber suit and get spanked while drinking milk out of a cat dish.

    Or something.

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  3. K.’s avatar

    K. on 27 February 08 at 10:48 pm

    One of my favorite stories at work is of a coworker who had replied to an email to her husband (so she thought) saying, “It’s such a beautiful summer day; let’s take off early” and proceeded to state some (mildly) suggestive things they could do.

    She got a response from a coworker that said, “Um, thanks, but I’m married.”

    She still blushes about it to this day.

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