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Jaime-Leigh's not entirely an oversharer — she's in a now-four-month-long relationship that sometimes gets discussed on Tumblr (ie. like answering readers' Qs about whether or not the relationship disputes her earlier anti-monogamy stance, discussing the bf's handling of her Tumblr's racy content, etc.) but doesn't veer into TMI territory.

She also — and I don't think Jaime-Leigh minds me including this, 'cause she was fully aware that it was gonna be in the column (but was cut by my editor due to space issues) — has a daughter in middle school that's understandably an off-limits topic on the Tumblr.

"It's something I'm torn on," she told me when we did the interview over coffee last week. "My blog is essentially a life cast. It's odd to have a huge segment of your life is missing, and I want to to talk about it."

Of course, there's a huge 'but...' following that, because she's dealing with her daughter's privacy (does her daughter rly want to come up online with a mom that went all Kathy-Lee Gifford on her?).

So evidently, Jaime-Leigh does draw a line between the on/offline, attesting to the fact that as much as we'll increasingly live our lives online, we're human in our need to still maintain a bit of mystery. ('Cause if you don't, you're looking at your Josh Harris', Emily Gould's — oversharers that either went crazy or you know, became reformed.)

Of course, I think this totally shifts the context of her Tumblr. Remember that Noah Lindsey Cyrus posting? It totally reveals that underneath all that TMI and trainwreckin' and loud-mouth-ish-ness, there's some fourth wave feministing goin' on here.

& MAYBE (yeah I know, I need to shut-up already, but let me just say this and we can get back to the quotes and links and photos) Jaime-Leigh's complicating that Carrie Bradshaw-esque overshare model (see Julia Allison). She presents a type of woman we don't see visible enough in mainstream: a twenty-ish single mother getting her fuck ya-ya's on. (Which makes me hope that she's forecasting future Bristol Palin's who'll eventually speak out for themselves about the experience of being a Bush-era Jaime-Lynn Spears-like teen that lost their Sex Edu 101 in high school, got pregnant, had to deal w/all this conservative shit, and were able to move on, etc.).

In reality, we're awkward, scared, unfocused, self-absorbed, petty, and don't have out shit together. It's why I find reading her mundane dramas way more endearing (someone speaking to a truly engaged community) than a mainstream bougie-raised ('cause how else you gonna get into journalism without those BA/MA's and unpaid internships) columnist spinning it out to a marketed demographic.

Other cool things that I couldn't incl but is worthwhile to mention:

• JLF is probably way more known than you to the NYC Young Manhattanite/Awl/Gawker scene (Peter Feld and her hung out in New York! The Valley Wags read her!)
• 300-600 Tumblarity (if she's get controversial, gets up to 600-900)
• She's spreadsheeted who does and doesn't follow her
• Her 9-5 grind is in the admin-end of things w/property management