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MayB
I try very hard not to, MayB.

posted by johnmacnab on August 3, 2005 at 5:02 PM | link to this | reply

MayB, I am afraid that I do but, I don't think that it matters much.   I'm not as uptight about things as I was at one time in my life.  

posted by TAPS. on August 3, 2005 at 2:47 PM | link to this | reply

As I sit here staring at the pile of reading I SHOULD be doing....
instead of spending 2 or 3 hours blogging I think I can agree with some firmness that yes, I invest too much time here. I've got 8 weeks until the LSAT and I'm not ready, but here I am on this damn laptop plugging away, reading blogs and posting on mine....it's a neverending addiction, but at least I can recognize it as such. I'm not sure others here can...(ssshhhh, they might be reading us right now!)

posted by UsualSuspect on August 3, 2005 at 8:32 AM | link to this | reply

MayB,
I think I see myself giving a bit more as time goes on. This Blogit thing is sort of anonymous isn't it. I can say what I feel and no one has to know who I am. I think that's a beauty of it. I also think if more of the people I know were on Blogit and knew who I was, I wouldn't feel as free to give too much of myself. That is something I'm trying to work on in my writing too. I'm trying to let it all go, so get it all down. It's becoming a bit cathartic.

posted by NCwriter on August 3, 2005 at 7:28 AM | link to this | reply

May, the short ones are the best. My Sam just makes it over 5ft.

Do I give too much of myself? No. I hold back loads. It's not that it's intensely private, though - the stuff I often hold on to is the stuff I know I must deal with myself. I also hold back many of the down parts of my life that others like to share and get answers on - I'm not saying others shouldn't post such stuff,  it's just that I choose not to. At the moment. All things are subject to change.

Just realised my comment's longer than your post, so I'll shut up now.

posted by _dave_says_ack_ on August 3, 2005 at 12:22 AM | link to this | reply

Used too. Not anymore.

posted by majroj on August 2, 2005 at 11:24 PM | link to this | reply

It's all right with me, May
I can just go back and read your entries that I have missed. *grin*

posted by Joe_Love on August 2, 2005 at 10:58 PM | link to this | reply

MayB
Sometimes...yes, I do.  It goes in spurts....it's a release....therapy.  I hadn't been writing until I signed up in mid-May; and I haven't learned to control the time I spend on here - that's the main issue for me.

posted by Krisles on August 2, 2005 at 10:01 PM | link to this | reply

MiaPratt, that sounds like a healthy approach.

posted by Azur on August 2, 2005 at 9:54 PM | link to this | reply

Not yet...

I like to write my thoughts first, then post them when I'm ready to reveal them at a later time (even an hour later). That way I can write when I feel like writing, and tap into reading the writing of others as a separate process; That seems to break things up for me so I don't feel emotionally drained by the length or intensity of my blogging interactions..?

Mia.

posted by MiaPratt on August 2, 2005 at 9:51 PM | link to this | reply

Hola,
Well, so far, I don't think that I have.  It is much easier to tell more about yourself in this Blogit world, but so far, I haven't regretted anything that I have wrote except coming back to posts that I have made and seeing way too many typos.  I hate it when I do that.

Go Easy,
J. King

posted by J.King on August 2, 2005 at 8:56 PM | link to this | reply

yes i do

posted by Vanidad on August 2, 2005 at 4:26 PM | link to this | reply