So what am I?

The whole discussion last week about pseudonymity (too much to even link to) has me wondering: So, what am I? Am I pseudonymous, or am I onymous (or whatever the word is)?

I mean, I use my real first name. I have photos. I use my kids' real first names. But: I don't give my last name. I don't say exactly where I live or work. I don't think I'm easily googled here; I don't even have this blog listed as a public blog on blogger.

Of course, I know that if someone really wanted to figure out who I am and where I work and live, he/she could do so in about 10 seconds.

Am I pseudo-pseudonymous?

Even though I don't use my last name, I think I think of myself as being onymous (again, is that the right word?). I figure it's all safer that way: I try not to write here anything mean about students or colleagues or family members. I guess on some level, I imagine my audience here the same way I imagine an audience when I write email: I try to remember that, really, anyone anywhere could potentially read it. And could know I wrote it. So by god, I'd better be careful.

On the other hand, I think the audience addressed and invoked here is much more specific than "anyone, anywhere": I write for an audience of other bloggers -- bloggers I know in person (like students who happen to be blogging in my classes) and bloggers I know only through reading and commenting on their work.

It's interesting to me, based on recent discussions about seriousness and experimentation in blogs, that I used the word "safe" above. Am I being too safe here? Could yesterday's blogging blues be attributed to safe-ness? Sometimes I think it would be more fun/playful/risky to be truly pseudonymous. I've even thought about starting all over again with a totally pseudonymous blog.