Disclaimer

  So in a blog such as this, I feel like it ought to have one of those "the names have been changed to protect the innocent..." blah blah blah et cetera things. But then I was thinking maybe it should be phrased "to protect the not-so-innocent." Maybe the names should be changed, even though this will be like watching Sex and the City on E! or whatever other channels syndicated it, all the raciest parts will be cut, there will probably still be some sensitive information sharing going down. (Okay, that pun was deliberate, going on.) Some of these people I still talk to and or see, so I don't need to cause more drama for myself than what has already happened that I'll be relating. But the juiciest most dramatic stories all center around people I have no contact with anymore at all, so it probably shouldn't be an issue. If/when I do change the names I want them to be something clever, like a different form of a person's real name, or a complete nickname I make up like "Mr. Big" on SATC. Another thing that I see when reading memoirs and things is that the author will say something in some a form of a disclaimer about, "this being my memory of the course of events, others may have a different recollection," blah blah. Perception is Reality. If I perceived something a certain way, then that is the way it was. (My friend will jump all over this because I am famous for reading emotion, usually negative emotion, into text messages, where you can't know how the person meant you to take something because a text doesn't convey inflection, but I am convinced that they were being hostile or snide or anything that could possibly escalate a situation in my own mind and make it something that it wasn't, creating senseless drama. But at least it's interesting.)

xoxo, Travvy