like a wheel within a wheel

feeling a little bit, or maybe more than a little, crazy here.  it's about blogs, and blogging and the internet in general and how big the world is and how one thing leads to another and there's just too goddamn much out there.  i go from one blog to another, following link after link, discovering new and more wonderful blogs and journals and sites all the time.  i get lost in the ether, i forget where i started, i can't find my way back to something i read a few days ago but forgot to bookmark, or keep track of in any way.  my blogroll could have hundreds of entries, but i'm limited to 25!  and so i email the blogfather to find out what about that limit?  and he suggests various things, all good, and i'll try something, yes i will. but having more space on the list would just be more helpful, really.  this is all a new world for me and i feel like a kid in toys r us, surrounded by so much delicious excess......it takes my breath away.  for instance, i muse about wes clark in a post, kind of talking to myself, then i go to body and soul, (sept.17 entry) where i find her musing and (last time i checked) 38 comments!  no longer talking to myself, in a community of others who are musing away.  and so, if i go to all those people's blogs, or the sites they reference, etc., there goes the time i should spend correcting papers, or doing the laundry, or grocery shopping, or mowing the lawn, or.....sleeping.  does this get better?  or worse?  is this an addiction?  or a fad?  will i get lost in the blogosphere?  or get so overwhelmed i blow it off and take up golf?   this is, i have to say, a truly amazing phenomenon.  it's the global village taken to an outrageous exponent, a village of millions, all intersecting and crisscrossing. 

okay.  breathe in, breathe out.  repeat.  repeat some more. look at the dog stretched out beside you on the floor.  what does he care?  nope, not at all.  he's just glad you're home, doing whatever the thing is that you do in this little room at that machine, keeping him company.  like you're supposed to.  although it would also be good if you'd take him to the beach for a little chase after the sandpipers.  how about that, huh?