If I had written this and were rereading it years later, I would guess that it had been written at 3AM. I have learned that any worries that come to my mind when I wake up at 3 AM should be pushed aside until morning, because at 3AM I leap to the conclusion that every sneeze is tuberculosis, every mole is advanced skin cancer, that every remark that's not complimentary means someone hates me, and that everyone at work is about to figure out that I'm a big faker and fire me. And I can *substantiate* every one of those worries - they all seem completely rational at the time. I don't know if you have an equivalent of 3AM, but I wonder if being sick has a similar result on you.
Anyway, one thing I find in reading blogs is that it's not so much what people do in their lives that make them interesting; it's how they think out loud about it. Plenty of people have more interesting lives than the people I read, but they don't translate well to the page. Also, as a rower myself, I find your writing about karate (like kijjohnson's about climbing) to be riveting.
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Date: 2007-10-10 09:33 am (UTC)Anyway, one thing I find in reading blogs is that it's not so much what people do in their lives that make them interesting; it's how they think out loud about it. Plenty of people have more interesting lives than the people I read, but they don't translate well to the page. Also, as a rower myself, I find your writing about karate (like