I found out today that at least one person at RingGuAPoReomEoHagWon has been reading my blog, or has seen it, anyway. If I understood correctly.
I have always been aware that writing my thoughts and experiences in this most public of places, the internet, could lead to this – that is why I have often kept things much more "bland" and generic than some of my audience (as small as it is) might expect. However, the actual knowledge is still something I have to adjust to, a bit. And it leaves me feeling compelled to reiterate, in more explicit terms, what this "blog" is supposed to be.
Mostly, this is just a sort of extended letter to my friends and family – at least, so far, that's what it's been. A way to avoid writing the same thing in 5 or 10 different emails each week. Secondly, it's a sort of discipline – a way to keep myself writing, if only a little bit.
It is most definitely NOT an effort at journalism (in which I have little interest), nor will I even guarantee truthfulness – I have dabbled in poetry and fiction a great deal over the years, and I reserve both novelistic and poetic license with respect to my writing here, even if I have, to date, rarely exercised it.
Back when I first started writing this, in 2004, I was actually quite careful to fictionalize e.g. my employer, but since then I've been much less careful, and I wonder if perhaps that has been a mistake. But on the whole, I don't actually write that often about work or about my employers – still, I should try to make clear that if I say something negative about my job, mostly I'm discussing my personal experiences and feelings.