I have a friend who works as a dean in one of the law schools in the area. Recently, she was telling me that a lot of law students were blogging about school and, more specifically, their uncensored feelings about various professors. Professors sometimes find these blogs and the recriminations start flying faster than you can say “civil action for libel.” Boys and girls, discretion is the better part of blogging. It’s okay to mock your professors when you and your buddies are goofing off in the library. But you never know when you might need that letter of recommendation or reference from that same professor you described as a “pompous, self-important fuck with a bad comb-over” on your blog. It can be tempting to take potshots from behind the safe, warm glow of your Powerbook, but such things have a tendency to come back and bite you in the ass. And remember, most people visit your blog simply because they want to read about your twisted, so-dirty-it’s-almost-illegal sex life.
Which makes me wonder why people still read my blog. I better start making shit up or I’m gonna start losing readers. Might be time for Sweeps Week at the 19th Floor.
