So. I’m a fucking moron, and a jackass.
Last night I found out, from the last person I would have wanted to hear it from, that one of my very-much used email addresses has been linked to this blog since its inception (which I did myself a while ago, when that email was as anonymous as I’ve been hoping this space was…). And at least one person, who I believe has met myself and one of the people I write about most, has come here after doing a search and finding that particular link. And boy haven’t I been loose with the identifying details, and stupid about, well, everything here. ‘Cause now word of my blog has travelled through the grapevine of RL acquaintances, or something. And I just can’t stop cringing.
What the fuck have I been thinking?! …Not thinking, I guess. Lying to myself, which is one of the things I usually pride myself on not doing. Imagining that my little piece of the blogosphere was smaller and more private than anything really can be on the internet.
And now.. I’ve violated the privacy of someone who greatly values it, written horrendously intimate things, bitched and moaned and flailed around like a fool, waving other people’s personal shit around, in front of an audience I should have known could be there. I was stupid and careless and have lost the trust and respect of probably more than one person. And I’ve damaged a relationship, unintentionally but far from blamelessly shattering the thing that’s hardest to rebuild.
So, where to go from here? I’ve changed some things and made probably half of the blog posts private. There’s still a lot of stuff I might make private later, but all the people that are now mentioned publicly in detail have consented to it, and hell, half the world knows I’m a damn fool already. I thought about closing down and moving my shit offline, but.. SAM will remain for now, at least.