"Like a graveyard...

Write whatever you want to write, or whatever you need to write, and sometimes set security levels by what you want us to know, but leave what you think we want to read out of it. Well, if it's really long or potentially "too much informatoin" than an <lj-cut> is a good idea, but beyond that -

don't wory about us potentially thinking "hey, tha Peter sure is a pathetic whiner!"

I know I don't. Rather the opposite, in fact.