playing catch-up

Over the last few weeks my blog roll has grown quite a bit. I use to feel like I knew everyone on my blog roll, but now that I have added the Torchbearing blog roll and the PCA blog roll I feel like I am scrambling to get a background on about 20 new people. The problem is I have so many irons in the fire that I can?t get caught up enough to settle into the new community.

I hate to say this but getting to know a fellow blogger is a lot like watching a Soap Opera. The first few times you watch it you have no clue what is going on. Then over a few weeks you start to get an idea of the characters involved. There can be a twist that jumps out and bites you when you least expect it. The funniest part is that Leslie and I start talking about fellow bloggers over dinner. Just this week we were talking about a fellow bloggers and what we knew about them. She had one version and I had another. I think at one point we stopped to reflect on how blogging has become apart of our lives.

I just want to make clear that for the most part blogging, unlike Soap Operas, is not a shallow pit. There are several blogs out there that have been instrumental in shaping my world view over the last year, and I am thankful they are out there.