Tim is thinking about something that a lot of people who keep online journals tend to think about at times:

I've started to treat people I know reading this page as a challenge of some sorts. A challenge I'm not sure I really want to undertake. All morning I felt sick as I waited for a reaction. This has happened before, and I don't like it. It was one thing when I wrote personal stuff but nobody read it, another thing when I wrote silly stuff and everybody read it, but writing personal stuff for everybody to read it as little scary. More than a little scary. Near to throwing up in the middle of Geography scary!

What have I learnt from this? Mainly that though everyone says they don't care what I write, the truth is they do. Will it change what I write? No. I like the thrill!

I think about this too. I don't care at all what the strangers think, it's the people who know me that I worry about.

But then I usually just get over it and write what I want.