I think blogging is becoming a problem.
I recognize a lot of similar behaviors and emotions to when I first got AOL. There were chat rooms to visit. I recall spending far too much time on line, going to chat rooms, anxious that I had missed something. Then it was chat rooms; now it is blogs. I find it challenging to focus on my work. I am eager to get back on line to the blogs, either to write my own or read others’. I eagerly check and recheck -many times a day – to see if someone left a comment on my entries. (oh! somebody reads my blog after all!) I am impatient to see new entries on dozen blogs that interest me. I continually edit and putz on my profile.
All this is at the expense of other activities such as gardening, music, yoga, and reading. I notice sleep hours are down too. Even as I write this entry, I am at work – ought to be doing something else –but am too eager to write out my thoughts on how I am blowing off things in order to write…..
I trust this is some sort of initial ‘rush’ that will normalize in time. It took a few months with AOL chat rooms. Over time I stopped going. I suppose chat rooms still happen, but I don’t know where/how.
I hope my enthusiasm for writing and reading blogs doesn’t fall by the wayside though; it only needs to normalize so I can eat and sleep properly thank you. I wonder how others manage their lives with their blogs? I suppose people have a time for writing each day – or do they merely write on the spur of the moment? In time I will find out time management from the ‘sages’ as I get to know them better.

Is there such a group as “BA”, Bloggers Anonymous?
“Hi, my name is Michael” (apparently in blog-land the name Michael seems a safe bet).Then after the meeting I try not to run home to turn it into the day’s entry.