Ohhhh I'm slipping off my 4 AM bed rule... mehhhh. Fernando seems to be having trouble sleeping this week, I can hear him watching some show about safety standards on buildings.
I was just reading a few random blog entries by romance author Jennifer Crusie, and one of them was about all the hassle that comes when you write something that Outrages! some people, and whether it's worth it for authors to bother blogging at all.
One of the classic examples she gives is writing something that's meant to be funny, and having Serious Minded People tell you how offensive you've been. Well there's no doubt that crucifixion-by-offensive-humour could certainly happen to me. I mean, it happens often enough in my real life.
But worrying about this now is something I will classify under: Things people spend time thinking about when they're not doing their actual work (be it writing, painting, making music, etc.) Like guys spending hours thinking up the perfect band name, rather than practicing. Or people planning their web sites before they've done anything that merits a web site. Or thinking up pseudonyms, or designing book covers, or speculating on how one will handle one's massive future fame. In other words: You don't have a hope in hell of having this *problem* unless you get back to work!
What is more likely is that I'll have to watch my Editorial Content when I one day get a teaching job. I would probably make this blog private, even though it's pretty benign. The other ones I write should in theory be Google-izable by Students since they're more about my opinions, less about my personal life. (No I don't plan to teach under the name Mabel, but it's in all my email addresses.)
And so... yawn yawn yawn. Off to bed.
