George Mason University Adjunct Faculty Kevin M. Goldberg scared me this week with lessons from last semester.

That’s right. I listened to a lecture I had already heard and I was scared anew.

I guess that makes me a wimp, but I don’t care. I’m just trying to be a careful journalist.

Why was I frightened?

I think it was because of an air freshener ad I keep seeing. You probably know the one. I’m scared to write more about it or to mention the product in detail. I don’t want to get into trouble.

Before I took Goldberg’s class, I was an okay journalist, but also a fearful one. After I finished his class, I was even more afraid. I was afraid of making costly errors that could land me in court.

I think a lot of what he discussed pertained to products like the one I’m not mentioning, so I feel pretty safe–like I won’t inadvertently commit those offenses. I think he did discuss, however, a few things that I might accidentally do one day. I hate that possibility.

The one thing I think I am most afraid of doing is taking an internet address that I am not supposed to have. Goldberg said this is called “cybersquatting.” I am worried about this, I think because of the fact that I found a sustainability blog that has the title that I was going to use.

I have another name for my site now and will be making an all-new site this coming week. I suppose, then, that I should stop worrying.

Want to hear something surprising, then? I wish Goldberg would come speak again.