Does anyone remember the John Hughes movie from the '80's, Some Kind of Wonderful? I love that movie. And now I'm living it. Unfortunately, I'm the Eric Stoltz character, Keith. If you recall, at the end of the movie, Keith realizes that he's been in love with his female best friend all along, not the pretty dream girl.
Just like I have discovered that I am love with the internet, after years of prizing my pretty dream girl of a real life.
It all started when Mary Kate encouraged me to try Google Reader at our last book club meeting. I'd never used a reader before, I just had approximately eight million blogs bookmarked on my computer. Granted, my system wasn't perfect. It took me forever to check all of my bookmarked blogs.
A lot of days it was hard just to get through all the AMAZING people on my blogroll. No, they're really cool. You should check them out. Although please don't abandon me when you discover that they're all better bloggers than I am. Anyway, I decided to begin the painstaking process of putting all my bookmarked blogs into my Google Reader.
Then I started subscribing to everyone who commented here (there's a little hint, lurkers). I am now subscribed to 96 blogs. Which means that somehow between yesterday afternoon, when I had my new list whittled down to 14, and this morning, all 96 of those bloggers have written new posts. The little number next to Google Reader is (110). In less than 24 hours.
This was going to be a clever post in which I linked to everyone in my Google Reader.
Then I remembered that Dora the Explorer is only twenty-five minutes long. And that I have 110 posts to read.
