Blog implications

Will I ever been so sensitive in the future that I'll need to take down my journal? A young woman that works in another department at PLU certainly was. She called me up this afternoon and, in a somewhat desperate tone, asked me to help her take down an old personal website. Getting to the bottom of things she was embarrassed by some what I would call silly things she wrote in her personal statement. Even though the site was a project for a class she took in 2000 and not all the writing was completely truthful (more for the grade than anything) she was embarrassed that a blind date she was being set up with had googled her and found the page. Well, word in his office spread like a wildfire through a Danish fireworks factory and thus the blushing red cheeks I could more see than hear through the phone once she called.

I took the site down and now wonder if the hundreds of pages of writing I've poured onto this site since 1998 will ever come back to haunt me? Since I don't see myself running for public office anytime soon I'd like to think most normal folks who happen upon my site will 1) probably not read that much of it and/or 2) will take it as a journey through myself in a relatively un-filtered manner. Without being outright offensive I try to be open and true with my writing and hope that someday it might even prove useful to someone somewhere. I don't write letters to a far-flung pen pal nor to some world leader but this is my record. Love it or leave it. My writing will not only remind me of my life but others.

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