Alex, I made that very joke last year to DuJane regarding other stuff that was going on at the time. It’s funnier now!

kb and Lydia, really? See, I knew people did that. I should do that.

Celia, here’s the answer, at least for me. The purpose of this blog is not to let it all hang out and have a place to write about my innermost feelings. Its purpose is to entertain and let me write expository essays that I hope will make people laugh, because that’s my greatest joy.

I sometimes would like to do that first thing, though, because, quite frankly, at certain points, as you know, the truth of my life is stranger than fiction and would be at least as interesting as this stuff if not more so. But it’s private. However, if I did a secret blog that I told no one about, not friends, not family, not Internet acquaintances, I could do that. How would people find it? The same way people I don’t know find this one: Google, links, etc.

So yes, people would read my stuff and wouldn’t know that I wrote it. Then I could say quite a few things that I can’t say here. I already write things I don’t post to the Internet. But I think a lot of it could be as interesting to other people as this one: the mundane and the unique, all written in the sarcastic, humorous style I hope is mine. Only the subject matter would be different.

Or are you saying you want people to read and comment on what you wrote, but you don’t want anyone to know you wrote it? Because I get how the internet potentially gives you that, although I don’t really have the impulse to do it myself.

Mostly because it’s too boring to let the world see. It’s all about meeee! Who wants to spend that much time inside my insecure head?

Actually, as anonymous as this blog is, I still sometimes consider a second, even more anonymous blog. Some day.

Thanks for clearing up a years-long misconception!

Ima, I’m pretty sure it means “conscientious.” Yes, definitely.