well, thanks everybody, for your input on the post below. i have to admit i spent a lot of time thinking that i was going to email him the URL without restrictions, but because i am a self-conscious loser, crippled by paranoia and with no faith in my writing abilities, i ultimately decided against it. i'm not ashamed of anything i write on my blog (well, not ashamed of like, 75% of it, anyways...) but i do think my posts are a little more livejournal than "real" blog (no suprise, since i've been keeping an online diary since i was 17 or so, and that's just what i enjoy writing), and i didn't want to expose him to that side of me. as weirdly engaging as it may be.

i ended up sending him an email with a link to my posts on DCist.com and links to several other blogs i enjoy, more mainstream fare like yglesias, talkleft.com, buzzmachine.com, a food blog and a couple of funny, normal personal sites that i read. (no, don't worry, nobody reading this got a link. some of my absolute favorite sites are by people who comment here, but i didn't email those because i'm linked on them, and i feared he would click through and discover this.) i know i'm linked on dcist.com, but you have take a while to find out where. and if he finds that, well, so be it.

anyway, the interviewer was very nice, and funny, and overall, i honestly don't think he would have minded reading this site, and may have even enjoyed it. but i just wasn't prepared to let someone whom i need to view me professionally see this side of my writing.

well, phew. i'm glad THAT's over. oy vey, the huge, terrible ordeals i go through in my daily life... i can't even begin to tell you about them. well, actually, i can. and that's what's i love about this blog. poop, partisan bile and overly nostalgic ruminations on italy; i can write about it, you can read about it, and we can all exist in perfect harmony.