The Rules

I'm a Type A personality, so even though this blog is a creative endeavor, I had to put up some parameters. This should come as a surprise to no one.

1. Elise M. Seaton is not my real name. Some of you may know my real name. Please don't use it here or on twitter, because...

2. I used to work in an industry where blogging about my job might quickly end my career. Even though I haven't worked in that field for over a year, I might want to do so again some day. To avoid even the appearance of crossover between my job and my personal life, I use a pseudonym. I also refer to my home state as Far North (I am aware that this is not all that clever or covert) so I'm less google-able. If you figure out what I do or where I live (or if I've told you in person or on twitter), please do me a favor and don't say anything about it. Someday, I will probably get over this, but I'm not ready yet.

3. This used to be a rule about swearing, but it seemed really stuck up and pretentious, so I deleted it. The basics are, I try to keep my swearing to a minimum. If you want to swear in my comments, go for it. If I think it's way over the (very far away) line, I might delete it. So. This is now a rule about my right to delete any comment I feel like deleting. That happened kind of fast. Sorry.

4. Feel free to contact me. You have no idea how ludicrously glad I am to open my inbox and see that REAL PEOPLE have actually read my stuff. And that they liked it. I'd probably even be kind of excited if they didn't like it. Probably...