i'm such a follower

[cheryljill]

not only did i jump on the livejournal bandwagon with very little arm-twisting by friends who already had livejournals, now i am going to make my journal friends-only. i'm doing this not because some of my friends have, but due to some privacy concerns on my part. i don't write extremely personal things in this forum, instead i save them for my

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[onelonelyhalo]

i totally understand how you feel. i live in fear that my zine will be discovered by one of my students. that's probably my biggest concern with my zine. when i try and tell my mom how i feel, she always says something to the effect of "if you're that worried about it, quit doing zines." that's not fair, though. my zine is a very important facet of my life, and i don't think i should have to give it up. grrr. what to do?

[erickapander]

that girl i told you about was the only one in morristown. are there surrounding towns still in bill's school district that you think i should check out? cos there are several people in nj that have ordered your zine from me. not all high school age, but i can't be sure of others.
and i'm wondering how i should handle possible future orders by his students?? how will i know they're his students?? ack!

[cheryljill]

don't you worry, ericka. if his student(s) buy a copy of my zine, i'll just have to live with that. i guess this just affects projects that i might do in the future. i try not to practice self-censorship, but i might have to watch what i say in future projects. i mean, what if one of his students *has/had* ordered my zine? or bought it from me at a zine fair? or through another distro? there isn't much i can do about it.

whoa

[externaltext]

small world! crazy that one of bill's students has read my zine and ordered from ericka. i can see how that would be pretty uncomfortable for you, though; i get freaked out every now and then when acquaintances of mine nonchalantly mention having seen my webpage. wtf? it's kind of scary.

[ex_mimic736]

I've been increasingly dealing with the "overlap", too, and thinking about how it has evolved since my zine days. I sort of picture it as a Venn diagram, in which one of the circles is "zines/internet", one is "real life relationships", and the overlapping space in between is a space that, at one time, I had complete control over. And it was particularly the internet that started to seep into that middle space and rob me of my total authority. It can be pretty fucking unsettling.

[exitseraphim]

cheryl- i'd love to be able to read yr livejournal. i just finished reading "merge disorder" and it's one of the best zines i've read in a longlonglong time. xo.