Hot Tamale - the revised version

Kimmy's comment on my last post was about whether I would give some insight on my co-workers in my blog. The short answer to this would probably be no. The island I live on is small and people have found my journal already, but were never quite sure. I have been detailing my issues lately so it would not be hard for people who know me in real life, to figure out that this is my space. So I think, unless I can do so with only a core group of readers, I will not be talking about people other than myself and random assholes I encounter daily.

The one thing I do not like about this blogging site is the inability to easily restrict who reads certain posts. This whole ordeal of getting people to send me an email so I can add them to my privacy list is a bit tedious so I have not bothered with it. But there are often things I want to talk about that I don't feel having all out in the open like that. Thus, so far I have kept the entries light, but last week something happened that required me to seek legal advice and though I think it has been settled, it raises the issue of integrity.

Someone did something last week, in a real life scenario, which defamed my character and my reputation and in a community as small as the one I live in, it was serious enough for me to address it with professional legal advice. The person is shocked that it got back to me but again - the country is too damn small for one to be so mischievous and not suffer some fall out as a result. For reasons already stated, I cannot discuss it here, but it raised the issue of integrity and what some people, especially people who talk about Jesus all day, will do to spite another person. I blog out of my daily experiences and never to intentionally hurt anyone. I use no real names, try not to blog too much about my friends, post no photos of people other than myself (well, in my last blog I posted photos...no photos here, sorry). I have never gone out of my way to intentionally hurt anyone - even after BT, I wanted to do all sorts of things to him - I had the means and contacts to have him arrested, deported, assaulted, slandered, to interfere with his professional and financial relationships and never did I undermine him in any way cause I said God will deal with him. For someone to consciously go out of his/her way to undermine me was annoying and disturbing.

In any event, the long and short is, the journal remains open as it is - but it will not ever be the same as the old Hot Tamale journal. I hope you all don't mind too much.