Blogging is Exhausting

If this whole blogging experiment is going to lead to anything substantial, there has to be a better way. I'm getting overwhelmed. To 'keep up' with all the blogs to which I subscribe, let alone to read new ones, connect with others, etc., can take more than 24 hours a day.

The thing with books is: they're finite. You can see how far left you have to read quite easily, by pinching the pages together that you've not yet read and pretending you can judge the body fat of text your reading will burn away.

Blogs: infinity. No end in sight. Each one grows in both directions everyday, creating streams of archived pasts and outstretched strands to other blogs. New blogs crop every day, like bacteria strains. There's no way out, only small ways to try and stay afloat.

So I'm thinking, there has to be some kind of constraint. I need to be part of a blogging circle, the way my mom is part of a quilting bee. Kind of like Cville Blogs, only smaller, and the thing would be inbred, sweetly incestuous. It would last for a distinct amount of time- six months, maybe. Then you could switch to a different circle. But at least after that six months you would feel like you knew the other bloggers somewhat -- that you had read their writing, not just skimmed it.

Well, following my own advice, I just trolled some of the other NaBloPoMo bloggers.

One that I really liked: http://mytopography.com/2006/11/12/two-kinds-of-prayers/ This woman is an artistic teacher.

I also liked "my pink toes" but his comments weren't working. The guy was afraid of cancer.

I actually feel kind of touched by other humans.

Is that pathetic?