8 Nov 2009
When I was the age of the girls I teach, I had just begun reading Gossip Girl as my guilty pleasure book (no, I am not a fan of the show at all). I remember reading in the books that on “gossip girl“‘s website, she abbreviated names as the first letter of their first names (characters with names like Blaire, Nate, and Serena were known on “gossip girl“‘s blog only as B, N, and S.
Today, my girls read a chain of books much like the Gossip Girl series called the Clique series, and I keep a blog, which sometimes, and probably more and more frequently, will begin to feature them in leading roles.
So, as “gossip girl” writes at the beginning of her blog: “Disclaimer: All the real names of places, people, and events have been altered or abbreviated to protect the innocent. Namely, me.” Events and places probably won’t receive this special treatment by me, however, the names will. In the future of this blog, names of my girls will be abbreviated as their initials. Hopefully this will maintain relative anonymity but also make the blog easier to read and write, not having to keep track of which “her” or “she” I mean this time…
