UPDATE, 12:30: Thanks for all your e-mails, kids. We feel like the most popular student in high school. But, unless you have tips, why not post it in the comments section? We’re going to just end up having to write a post about it…

Also, we didn’t want to do this in the original post, but since you’ve all been so good, we’ll point out the September 28, 2005 Cruel Sommer entry, where Mathis notes that she “had arrived in Paris after the end of a rather traumatic first foray into romance (I was a late bloomer) with a much older, married man.” Again, seems hypocritical of her to have bashed anyone for their sexual forays… You be the judge.  

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We’ve been covering the flared feelings of DCist and DC Bachelor with our own special flair (see the related entries at this post’s bottom, if you aren’t caught up) – and now a reader has called our attention to the personal blog of DCist’s editor, Sommer Mathis.

It’s got a snappy, yet dark title: “Cruel Sommer: Like Lambs to the Slaughter” (kind of like her personality?) and within, she says that she fears “exposing my blog to my co-workers, something I am trying to avoid…” Well, it is on the tubular Internets and people do Google, nowadays, we hear, so that was a pretty futile hope.

But why the fear in the first place? A few reasons, perhaps:

1) A cursory read shows Mathis to be quite inept at using the Internet (September 2005: “Is there a good free service that measures traffic?” Maybe not so embarrassing for our grandma, but for the lead editor of DCist, a decided embarrassment.

2) She revealed that she had a fling with some guy she nicknamed “The Continental” after “the classic champagne drinking lothario played by Christopher Walken on SNL.” She states in the post that she’d like to fancy herself as being with ”[s]omeone who didn’t throw me out of his apartment after we’d had sex.” We say flip things all the time at BHR, of course, but there’s a lot of real, raw emotion within Cruel Sommer, which has us questioning why she’d make the statement in the first place, if it weren’t true. After berating DCB for his sexual, er, prowess, we can’t help but smell a hint of irony.   

3) She’s posted secrets that she’s felt the need to remove. “I just deleted a recent post,” she wrote in September of last year. ”Those of you who read it know which one it was. I realized tonight that I’m walking a thin line between things that are okay to talk about and things that could get me into trouble. I need to be more careful about my subject matter in this space.”

4) The pressure is getting to her: “In the past two weeks on the Internet I’ve been called a horrid hag who can’t get a date and a perverted clone fucker,” she wrote last night. ”Only one of those statements is true.”

5) She’s a silly billy. Case in point, esteemed blogger Matthew Yglesias asked her via comments this morning, “Where was this hag remark?” and she responded, “Uh, it was on this terrible site that I’d rather not link to. I’ll tell you about next time I see you.” Which terrible site does she mean?

Anywho, enjoy the reading this a.m. (only if you’re not one of her co-workers, of course – she’ll be, like, so embarrassed otherwise). We can’t wait to see what Mathis writes next!

Related: DCist on the Defense (Again); DC Bachelor Says DCist Writers Fear Being Fired; MetrobloggingDC on DCB/DCist Battle Royale; DCist Editor Sommer Mathis Nails DC Bachelor (& BHR); DCist Blogger Calls DC Bachelor Out