Disclosure

Along the lines of my "Why is a blog?" thinking is the question of disclosure. How deep (or shallow) a view of my personal life is required for readers of a blog? Should names of friends be mentioned? I foresee a problem...what if my level of disclosure is such that I mention how much something someone did upset me, and they read it here without me having told them? Well, I guess that's a dumb question. I realized even as I was writing the question that such matters shouldn't happen anyway--problems should be resolved as soon as possible with the person(s) involved. I'll try to articulate better the question I think I meant to write. Say something happens to me involving another person, and said person and I have resolved the issue as best we can. But, say the situation involved something very meaningful to me, or say it changed a certain course of events of particular part of my life, or say it provoked some line of meaningful thinking that I wished to share with others...how much do I disclose? Would I mention it? I mean, if said person(s) involved are able to have enough of an effect on my thinking or life that I wish to write about it, then they are probably close enough to me that there's a chance they'll read my blog. I foresee that I will make things vague enough to achieve a balance of disclosure and discreetness. It worries me to think that I will hinder my own thoughts for the sake of others. I mean, I see this as sort of my own journal. That, I suppose, is for me what makes blogs so unique. Forgive me for sounding so profound, but they are viewable journals of a sort. I suppose it's something that I will have to learn as I go. I suppose if I really wanted to have full disclosure of thought, I would just type out my thoughts in some sort of password-protected journal software. But there's a somewhat egoistic part of me that tells me my thoughts are interesting, deep and funny, and that others will enjoy them, learn from them, and wish to read more of them. That, I suppose is part of why I wanted to do this.

To give a reason as to why I'm writing this post right now, it's because I really should be working on about five or six different assignments for the classes I'm taking. For those of you who are curious, I'm a senior German major (and a psychology minor, if I ever do the paperwork) at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. I am set to graduate on April 30 of this year. These are the classes I am taking this semester, in no particular order:
Abnormal Psychology
Psychology of Women
Psychology of Interpersonal Relations
German Film as Refracted History
German Independent Study: German Fairy Tales

Overall, I would say that this has been my favorite semester by far. These are all really awesome classes. I feel I'm really becoming a lot more sensitive to women's issues with my psych. of women class. The interpersonal relations class is absolutely awesome: our professor loves life and has a teaching style that really makes you put your guard down and learn what he's saying. And you can never go wrong with German films (except maybe the Tin Drum). And the abnormal psych. class has shown me where Stephen King got a lot of his character ideas. As for the independent study...more on that later. I promise.