There’s a supervisor at my workplace I’ll refer to as “Bossy Blonde,” who has a tendency to stick her nose where it didn’t belong. Usually that meant monitoring what I was doing at my desk even though she wasn’t my boss, and despite the fact that I was working in a division completely unrelated to hers.

I knew she’d be working here tonight, so I began to explore my options. Where could I go to enjoy some privacy (and check my blogging stats) without her peeking in on me? We had an office with a very nice desk and PC that could have been an ideal solution for me, but it got locked up at the end of the day. Not one to give up so easily though, I decided to use the credit card tips I found at Lifehacker today, and tried to jimmy the door open with one of my library cards.

“Frick frick frick! Why can’t these doors ever open up easily like they do in the movies???”

After a few minutes of twisting and prying, nervously keeping an eye out for anyone who might walk in on me, I finally gave up. Ok, this wasn’t gonna work.

I continued to scout my territory, and eventually settled on a nice little corner desk I found hidden out of view by a maze of cubicle walls. It was the perfect spot to hide out for a few hours until I could finally go home.

I settled in, sighing contentedly as I happily logged on and checked my emails.

“Hey Linc! Whatchya doing here??” It was the boss of the section I was hiding in.

“Oh hey!!!!!!!!” I said, wincing as my thumping heart cracked a few ribs, “I’m just umm, hanging out here for my um, meal break, that way nobody bothers me.”

“Oh, ok.” He looked at me with a little uncertainty, then picked up his keys and left.

I looked at the time. Still another 50 minutes to go.

“@#$%,” I muttered. The search for my quiet place continues.

I came across Clutzr recently, which offers a social networking service that allows people to view your clickstreams (essentially where you’ve been on the web). In other words, the public at large can basically monitor every move you make on the Internet. And yet rather than consider this a really BAD idea, the makers wrapped a cute blue bubble around their package and calls it a whole bowl of delicious fun.

I know there are privacy settings that you can add, but gees. If I were doing some innocuous surfing, that’s one thing, but if I’m having a really bad day and I’m googling the keywords “how to hire a hitman,” I probably don’t want too many people to know about it. Besides, do I really want to spend a day surfing online dating sites like I usually do, with the knowledge that people viewing my clickstream will be snickering at my desperation, and then rolling over with laughter when my hours of love searching finally leads me to an article titled Loneliness: Bane of the Christian Single?

I think not.