So I had a little unintended vacation from this page. One too many ponderous, interminable posts, including two I wrote and didn't post, and I just suddenly got really sick of listening to myself type.

Does that happen to the rest of you?

The current experiment calls for no posts over 200 words for a week. My hypothesis is that PK actually possesses the ability to demonstrate brevity. I have no control group though, so I don't think this experiment will make it into Science, nor will the A.M.A. be terribly interested, although they might be more interested in today's diet of pastries from morning to night and how I think that my hypothesis that PK will feel ill if he eats any more simple carbohydrates compounded by acute glucose/sucrose overdose today will be proved.

Take that Atkins!

I totally identify. I ran a similar experiment and it was nice for a while, but then things started shrinking until my posts dwindled down to nothing at all. Now I'm trying to relocate some of my misplaced long-windedness.

One of the problems I encountered was that I sometimes found/find myself in the throes of punditry, and occasionally I'd become gripped with realization that I'm in no way a qualified pundit on most topics. But then I figured out that that's what blogs are for: holding forth on shit that that you only have the most tenuous grasp of. I still feel guilty occasionally, but I'm trying to stop.