To blog or not to blog?

I have been reading blogs for some time now, watching as they became more and more prevailent. I debated trying to produce one, and at least one of the reasons I hesitated was the nuerotic sort of compulsion that some bloggers seemed to have to publish something every day at least no matter how lame or half baked it might be. I wondered if this was a symptom of addiction, with which I have had more than a passing aquaintence.

So, when I made the jump and started this little endevor, I decided I wouldn't get so caught up in the obsessive need to post something EVERY FUCKING DAY! and, I'm happy to say that so far, I seem to be okay with that. After all, I do have a job which I get paid for, so taking on something that basically I was volunteering for was going to have to integrate with the whole of my life as it already was.

So it was interesting yesterday, when I had a day off and was occupied with other things, to find myself thinking "Oh, I should post something." It was not that I had something meaningful to say, or that there was something I felt I absolutely had to comment on, but just this nagging feeling that I SHOULD post something.

The ego is an amazing thing. I don't know if anyone is even reading these things, other than a few friends who got the first email I sent out announcing it, but I was thinking that somehow, SOMEONE was expecting me to post something. It was just a passing thought, but it was there.

So here I am, posting about not posting. Oh, the irony!