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Hi Julia and Sonal, 

I too thought that kind of “personal” sharing was what Anne meant when she talked about ‘locating’ yourself when you write a paper, but, while that is one kind of location, I think the kind of locating that they do in this article is ultimately the more useful one for their topic and their audience.

But I am interested, Sonal, in the fact that you think your professional and personal life would be roughly the same. Even ‘living at the office’ as we do while on BMC’s campus, I have found my personal and professional lives to be very different – the friends I have in each world, for example, or the way I interact with people. In one sense, I admire the fact that you envision for yourself a life where you could ‘be yourself’ (as faulty as that metaphor is) in both your personal and professional life… but I never pictured that as something I would even strive for, because I think the two provide useful outlets – interruptions, maybe – for each other. Sometimes I like to take a break from my personal life in the professional, or vice versa.