The Monsonienne

I read a book recently, called The Washingtonienne, loosely based on a true story about a Capitol Hill worker who got fired from her job for posting explicit details about her sex life (with various married politicians) on her blog in 2004.

Here's an example from The Lost Washingtonienne:
"I got a raise today! Now I make $25K.
(Wasn’t that what I was making before??)
Most of my living expenses are thankfully subsidized by a few generous older gentlemen. I’m sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: how can anybody live on $25K/year??"

I have to admit I was intrigued while reading this book/blog. Not necessarily because I agreed with what the author was saying (she was a bit too loose for my tastes, and that's putting it mildly), but it made me start thinking about who is reading what I'm writing, even though I'm really only writing for myself, as a way to practice writing.

To be clear, she wasn't actually fired for her blog content; rather, she was fired for "inappropriate use of senate computers," which means if she'd written it at home instead of work, she likely wouldn't have been canned. But I digress...

It also made me think about cool blog names. My friend Kristin is looking to start writing a blog again and was soliciting names on Facebook the other day. My blog name is the name of my newspaper column, Journaling with Jen, but it occurs to me that I might not want to link my blog with my work because then perhaps I could be fired for its content, even though for the most part it's benign. After reading The Washingtonienne, I've been thinking about changing the name of this blog (at least temporarily) to The Monsonienne. It has a bit of panache to it, does it not?

We'll see, I haven't decided yet...