it's an addiction

The funny thing about starting a law blog is that it sucks you into the law blogger world inexorably. You just can't help it. I was deliberately not reading a lot of blogs. It can take up a huge amount of time, and I was going to be busy. As much as I liked reading everybody's stories, I knew I couldn't possibly keep up and keep up on my classes at the same time.

JCA, over at Sua Sponte, was the first blog I ever found. I deliberately didn't look at all the other blogs on her long list of entries because I didn't want to discover more blogs. JCA is a terrific writer, however, and I thought, hey, one blog can't hurt me.

Then JCA, an unknowing but nonetheless powerful enabler, quoted a particularly funny entry from Bekah over at Mixtape Marathon, and that got me hooked. Now I must check in on Bekah's world every day.

Then a so-called "friend" of mine (temptress!) found both Dylan and Biting Tongue. Both are 1L's and former techies going through law school. I started reading their blogs and now I can't stop.

I can't even remember how I found Ambivalent Imbroglio. Classic blackout behavior there, but regardless of how he got there, Mr. AmbImb is now on my daily reading list.

Then Beanie over at Screaming Bean posted to my blog, and I found a law student totally after my own heart and I was really happy about it, and I must check in every day.

Last night was clearly the act of an addict. While procrastinating terribly on my criminal law reading, I did what I promised I would never do, and started clicking on random blogs on JCA's list. Bad move. The first blog I clicked on was Waddling Thunder over at Harvard, and bam! an hour at least was spent reading his archives.

Always-on Internet is a terrible, terrible thing for a gifted procrastinator such as myself, especially when I'm entering such a verbose and chatty field. My hit ratio on the law blogs is 100% now; I've started reading every single one I clicked on. This is not a good sign for my future efficient use of time.

Take this post, for example. I really should be reading right now.