When I got to Belgium, I had 900+ unread items in my Google Reader. I wasn't surprised, as the last couple of weeks in Whitesburg I had been neglecting feeds such as Weddingbee and Slate, and only paying attention to short-attention-span feeds (ie, Cheezburger and Cute Overload), and then I spent a good 4 days straight travelling and not reading anything at all. A full 400+ of those unread items were from Weddingbee, and I started knocking them out while sitting at the Philly airport (their wifi is free on the weekends!) waiting for the first of my ridiculous flights.
I just finished all of them. And everything else in my Reader. It's 2 am here in Brussels. Yikes.
And lest you think I'm wasting my trip to Brussels, I've really walked around and seen everything there is to see in Brussels other than the museums, and I'm not in a museum mood. So other than that, it's spending money on food and drinks, and I'm not feeling that so much, either, although I think tomorrow will consist of a decent amount of beer and chocolate and frites. Plus, it's hard to do the nightlife thing by yourself when everyone else you're with has to go to bed early so they can wake up for work the next morning. The weekend will be more fun, I promise.
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I've long since given up on reading everything in my reader. I created an "A-list" tag for things that I'll always read everything. A "B-list" for things that I'll always skim through the titles and read the interesting ones. And a "AA test runs" list for newer feeds that I'm trying out. Those are the top 3 tags alphabetically, and then everything below is organized by category. I skim through those sporadically, like when I'm feeling like reading some "science" blogging or something.
The problem was that the one with 400+ posts was my top A-list feed. I definitely wanted to read them all, it was just so daunting to start.
A lot of the others I subscribe to are not full-length-reading blogs, so I can go through all the posts in the feed very quickly, or else I just skim headlines (like Slate and my other newspaper feeds).
I can definitely tell, though, that this OCD part of me is going to have to fall by the wayside at some point in the future, I'm just not sure how soon.
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