The Rub

Things are lackluster on this blog and I apologize. It is getting hard for me to write. I still read friends’ blogs and I am a little jealous of their anonymity.

Things were fine when this blog’s readership consisted of friends, law students at other schools, and a few scattered classmates. That’s over now. The unexpected byproduct of this year’s increase in local readership is that random people are getting really pissed off.

My readers are aware that I usually write anecdotes. I typically attribute quotes to a pseudonym and change some facts around to obscure the speaker’s real identity.

The people who are identifiable, like professors, coworkers, and boyfriends, receive gentle treatment for privacy reasons. That’s why I will mention breakups but don’t delve into the underlying causes. This isn’t Revolutionary Road. I want to maintain good relationships with the exes and besides, none of the boyfriends has lit the bed.

There’s a scene in “The Social Network” where Eduardo Saverin’s crazy girlfriend lights his bed on fire. Someone took Ring the Alarm a little too literally…

The problem with pseudonyms that the lack of an identifiable speaker means that random people wrongly assume that I’m writing about them (or their friends) and shoot me nasty facebook messages/tweets about misquoting or misrepresenting them.

Let me reiterate that most of these people pissed off about my posts have nothing to do with the situation. They weren’t present, and don’t know the people who were.

I haven’t written at length lately because I’m tired of this bizarre attention and criticism. But that creates another problem – I’m posting just enough to be thoroughly dull and people have started to comment (and speculate) on the lack of substantive posts. Well crap.

One girl even used the lack of a post as an admission.

The dullness ends now. The frenemies are going to scavenge this blog and fabricate drama for as long as the blog exists, so I’m going to stop playing Tammie Brown for fear of being pegged a Tyra Sanchez. It’s good to be back.