Another boring meta-post

The day after I wrote the last post, I plopped down on the field trip bus next to C, one of the more memorable students of the class of 2011. She flashed me a big grin, then told me she didn't appreciate me writing about her class on my "blogspot page," and then proceeded to tell me she read a lot of my posts and that I can get a cheap laptop for around $700.

Obviously I don't really know what to do about this. I like Epiphany in Baltimore, I like blogging, but I don't really like blogging and knowing a lot of individuals in my life are reading. Especially my students. But, on the other hand, I'm not (really) ashamed by what I write, and I should be able to stand behind it, right? So I've tried to ignore for a long time that people in my life probably read it - C says a lot of students read it, which certainly isn't a surprise to me - but I still inevitably self-censor myself. And, as the last commentor commented, most of my posts now are about "safe" topics, like school, baseball, or the election. And I don't like that. I'm bored by it. I don't even sit down and think "Well, I have to be safe when I write this," but, looking back, I barely write about, you know, my deepest darkest feelings, my emotional and physical health, my loves and losses, things like that. And that's why I liked blogging. Well, it's the combination of it all, of being able to get riled up about a educational political issue on one day but write about the beautiful polish girl on the next day, then maybe post a photo or two.

Writing about this issue is becoming boring, too. I've had this sort of inertia for seemingly a year now. I've never been good at making commitments or sticking with a decision, though, and it's showing here. This is honestly the longest thing I've ever stuck with (by far), so ending it would be huge. And, truth be told, I like that I have a relatively large readership and that some people have been reading for years and years.

My options seem to be as follows:

a) Continue to write my somewhat sanitized blog here.

b) Continue to write my somewhat sanitized blog here, and start a new personal that is totally anonymous.

c) Scrap this one and start fresh.

d) Start a new anonymous blog about educational issues in Baltimore City from a teacher's perspective (wow, there's such great stuff right now about re-assignment and such, and want it to remain on the forefront of educational discussion), and keep this one for personal issues, hopefully preventing me from ever getting into trouble from this one.

I don't know.