Yes, I’m aware that Q&A Posts are rather high on the copout scale, but I still feel like someone shoved a blowtorch down my throat so the usual rantings will have to wait a few more days. Thus, today I give you answers to some recent reader questions.

Q: If your identity is revealed, will you keep up the blog?

A: Absolutely. While the contingency plan calls for taking down certain posts, I fully intend to keep the blog up and running indefinitely. As for continuing to post, for those who enjoy reading the blog regardless of my status as a law firm associate, I can promise you that I’ll keep updating the blog with any interesting fallout. Like, say, my mother’s reaction when she finally finds out about all this.

Q: How does Boyfriend feel about your posts dealing with him? Has he ever asked you to take down something you’d posted?

A: Since the day I started the blog, Boyfriend has been nothing but supportive and finds the entire thing fascinating. That being said, he’s not immune from bitching about the way I portray him in certain posts. Others, he loves – specifically, the one where I talk about him getting hit on all the time at bars. Funny how all his friends seem to have read that one. As for asking me to take down a post, the answer is yes, once, when I crossed that line between what is and isn’t appropriate for public consumption. I caused a large fuss about it, but ultimately realized that his comfort level means far more than one day’s read on the internet. And, the fact is, while I give him a hard time on the blog and poke fun at his various idiosyncracies, I’d walk in traffic if he asked me to. Though I tend to do that often enough entirely unsolicited.

Q: Have you ever met a “fan” of the blog who knew you were the author?

A: Yes, it happened the other night actually, this guy found out I wrote it from a friend and asked her to make introductions. Safe to say I highly dislike the experience, I feel extremely awkward and shy meeting someone who doesn’t know me but who reads my blog. It creates somewhat of a false intimacy. Especially at 4 A.M. on New Years Eve.

Q: Are all of your stories told in real time?

A: The personal ones, yes. Anything to do with my family, Boyfriend, my personal life is written directly after it happens. The firm stories, generally no. Some of them happened two days ago, a few weeks ago, some longer than that. Some of them cover several firms. I have a lot stored up in my head over the past few years, why limit the blog to my current firm.

Q: I work as an associate at X Firm and nothing like that ever happens where I work. Did you just get unlucky?

A: No, because the things I write about do happen at your firm. Perhaps not to you, perhaps you were held by your ankles and bathed in the legal Styx after graduation to bless you with magical law firm indestructibility, but to other people they do. Passive aggressive bullshit, backbiting and infighting, firm politics, this fantastic sociological experiment that I watch unfold every day is happening in your very office, you just haven’t looked up from the billable timer to notice it. Pay closer attention – 99% of my average day is so mind-numbingly boring it could result in mass suicide if I wrote about it continually. But then there will be 5 minutes of pure absurdity, and that’s tomorrow’s (or next week’s) post right there. You just have to be looking for it. Try it sometime, makes firm life a hell of a lot more interesting.