on blogging and letting it go

in retrospect, i practically led my coworker to my blog tonight. she's a friend of a friend on facebook, and as she & i shared space in the break room tonight she asked me about a facebook conversation she'd seen. i told her we were talking about the song Disco Dancing Dragon because brian had used it in a video and i hadn't been able to find any information on it, even though it's been indelibly stuck in my head ever since. she was sitting there with her phone in front of her - of course she googled it. now, i KNOW that if you google Disco Dancing Dragon, my blog pops up first on the list. but that thought didn't cross my mind. she quickly pointed out what album the song was from and who the artist is. i confirmed that that's what brian had told me and that i had downloaded the song last night. then she says " ... wait. are these ... ? i think these are brian's pictures. yeah, these are brian's pictures! that's the dragon you gave him!" and she's laughing and turns her phone so i can agree that, indeed, those are brian's pictures.

and that's when the light bulb went on. this is what she was looking at.

i don't know if she realized she was looking at something i had posted or not. if she read the actual text, she had to have known. i mean, the first line states "i gave the miniature dragon to brian" - that's pretty obvious. but if she noticed, she didn't let on.

torn between feeling awkward and being humored, i'm choosing to be humored. even if she realized it and comes back to read more - so what? it's a public blog. i've always had it that way, and i don't see any reason to make it invite-only or anything like that. that's why i keep stories vague and don't use a lot of names. that's why i don't post every thing that goes on, especially the stuff inside my head. ;)

i did come home tonight, though, and start reading through my posts. my original thought was to edit out anything that shouldn't be read by new readers. but, again, so what? i don't really blog about anything that's going to embarrass me. and i don't use it to unabashedly vent about work or coworkers. and if people want something to judge me for, they're going to find something to judge me for - they don't really need my blog to do that. plus, if learning that i'm slightly OCD about keeping my silverware off of restaurant tables is something that interests them - then read away, good people. read away. chances are you're going to find out i'm crazy eventually anyway. :)