Prepoceros

It probably won’t surprise you that I, a reasonably regular blogger, keep up with a considerable number of other blogs. I collect and read RSS feeds with Bloglines, which greatly simplifies that up-with-keeping. If a blog doesn’t publish a feed, I tend to write it off as being not worth the effort; I can think of only three non-feeded blogs that I remember to read at least once a week.

I generally settle in to check on everybody once a day, maybe two or three times if I have lots of work to procrastinate on, and it usually takes me about an hour to get through a day’s posts. If there are enough intriguing links to other compelling sites with large archives, the process can last all day (see above re: procrastination).

The number of blogs in my subscription list has slowly crept up, more sharply over the last few months as I’ve discovered law blogs. I promised myself I wouldn’t let it get over one hundred. Today it climbed to ninety-six (and I have a vector analysis test to study for), so I figured it was time to clean house.

I just made a quick first pass today, pruning all the sites that had broken feeds, that hadn’t posted anything since I subscribed, or that I know I scroll past every time they pop up. I was a little surprised at how much deadwood had accumulated, but I’m down to seventy feeds now and somehow I feel this makes me a saner person. My goal is to slash that number to fifty by the time I start law school. I’ve heard law students get lots of homework. And stuff.

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P.S. Sam is doing much better now, by the way. He started eating again in the morning before we went to the vet, so they just pumped him full of extra fluids and sent him home.

Sam started shivering as soon as we walked into the lobby of the vet’s office, suddenly remembering all the times he’d been stuck with needles and thermometers, but by the end of the visit he was doing much better than his mama, who had to lay down on the nice cold floor for a few minutes after watching the needle go in. Silly mama.

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