day 62 - 1st Friday of March

 Today is the 6th day of the 9th week, the 3rd day of the 3rd month, the 62nd day of 2023 [with only 295 shopping days until Christmas], and:

• 33 Flavors Day
• Canadian Bacon Day
• International Ear Care Day
• National Anthem Day
• National Cold Cuts Day
• National Day of Unplugging
• National Dress in Blue Day
• National Employee Appreciation Day
• National I Want You to be Happy Day
• National Mulled Wine Day
• National Salesperson Day [also celebrated in December]
• National Soup It Forward Day
• National Speech and Debate Education Day
• Peach Blossom Day
• Princess Day
• Simplify Your Life Day
• Talk in Third Person Day - created in 2006 by Igror Grossmann to celebrate illeism, such as the "royal we" and the "editorial we".  Apparently it is a method of rumination, one that I guess we all indulge in now and then when we are doing self-talk, altho using it when communicating with others can be a symptom of either gaslighting or  narcissism.  I guess in a way, talking about your avatar in your 2nd life/lives as tho it is someone else could be considered illeism, unless they are a manifestation of one of your alters if you have DID.
• TB-303 Appreciation Day - apparently you will know about this one if you are musician
• What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day
• World Birth Defects Day
• World Hearing Awareness Day
• World Day of Prayer
• World Wildlife Day

This March is one of those rare months were we have SIX [6] Fridays - and since we get paid every other week, three of them are paydays!  

Quote of the day:

I actually had intended to find a quote about writing, about crafting a narrative because very often that entails speaking in third person [see holiday list above].  However, when this particular quote popped up, it just sounded right, if that makes any sense, so there you go 

Altho it is pretty far afield from illeism, how to tell a story is always on my mind as I work with the reports for the end of month [EOM] and the end of the quarter [EOQ], or when I am asked to produce something for auditors/regulators/examiners.  A lot of times the person requesting the report tries to tell me what data to give them, but when I inquire into the reason they want that particular report, I can tell them that data won't provide the information for the narrative they are trying to convey.  Sometimes, like any customer, they insist that data will tell them what they want to know and ignore my questions, only to be disappointed when the end result is shown to them.  I find the process of turning data into useable information fascinating and it was that fascination that led me down the rabbit hole of knowledge management back in the mid-1990's.  For it isn't enough to figure out how to know what you know, you also have to figure out how to convey it, store it, and preserve it.