I'm a stalker get me out of here
I never imagined I would become a stalker. Not for me following Tom Cruise around or checking the celebrity magazines to see where Paris Hilton hangs out. But it seems I am a "stalker"....well a blog stalker if that makes sense!
I post about every six months due to laziness/ fatigue/the fact that I am a reporter and writing a blog is the last thing I want to do after a day on the computer. I work from home so I don't have colleagues as such. I meet fellow journalists in court or at various functions but I don't have anyone sitting next to me in my workspace.
When I get up in the morning I look at the RTE news website in Ireland. If it is a busy day I hop in the car and go to something or other. If it is a deadly quiet day I listen to the radio looking for ideas for stories and I trawl the internet etc.
Well that is the official party line. The reality is that on the super quiet days I read blogs. Bombadee, a woman I know in Pecatonica, IL introduced me to blogging so I have her site under my favourites. Generally to read blogs I go to her site. I start with hers then work through her links to their links and so on.
I never really thought anything about it until I read about people being able to check who was visiting their site. Seems I am officially a stalker!!! I read the same ten websites every day with the exception of maybe Saturday's. I often read the same blog twice in a day if I don't have time to finish it. (The phone rings and I have to do work!)
Does that make me a stalker? Is that normal behaviour? I am going to keep away from my usual blogs for about a week in case the authors feel "weirded out" by my stalker stats.
And authors..you know who you are...I promise you won't be getting any peculiar packages in the post with dead threats. No cut off fingers in the mail!!!! You won't have to hire a minder a la Kevin Costner in "The Bodyguard."
Yours Sincerely....a part time worker/full time mother who claims she doesn't have time to vacuum the house but magically manages to read blogs EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I post about every six months due to laziness/ fatigue/the fact that I am a reporter and writing a blog is the last thing I want to do after a day on the computer. I work from home so I don't have colleagues as such. I meet fellow journalists in court or at various functions but I don't have anyone sitting next to me in my workspace.
When I get up in the morning I look at the RTE news website in Ireland. If it is a busy day I hop in the car and go to something or other. If it is a deadly quiet day I listen to the radio looking for ideas for stories and I trawl the internet etc.
Well that is the official party line. The reality is that on the super quiet days I read blogs. Bombadee, a woman I know in Pecatonica, IL introduced me to blogging so I have her site under my favourites. Generally to read blogs I go to her site. I start with hers then work through her links to their links and so on.
I never really thought anything about it until I read about people being able to check who was visiting their site. Seems I am officially a stalker!!! I read the same ten websites every day with the exception of maybe Saturday's. I often read the same blog twice in a day if I don't have time to finish it. (The phone rings and I have to do work!)
Does that make me a stalker? Is that normal behaviour? I am going to keep away from my usual blogs for about a week in case the authors feel "weirded out" by my stalker stats.
And authors..you know who you are...I promise you won't be getting any peculiar packages in the post with dead threats. No cut off fingers in the mail!!!! You won't have to hire a minder a la Kevin Costner in "The Bodyguard."
Yours Sincerely....a part time worker/full time mother who claims she doesn't have time to vacuum the house but magically manages to read blogs EVERY SINGLE DAY.
posted by cara at 2:11 PM
5 Comments:
You are not a stalker - you are who I and they and we all write for. You are bearing whitness to our feelings and validating the universe as such. Now if you tried to find out where we all lived and peeped in our windows that'd be different.
I found your blog off of Jenny's, she is a friend of mine too, (by marriage) her husband was the best man in my marriage in 2005.
You are not a stalker and I do the same thing, I look at what others have written but do not comment all that much.
A true stalker does not stop, they climb in the backyards, go through garbage etc. Not that I have ever been one. Well maybe an old boyfriend a time or two, but usually I just did the call and hang up kind...
I don't check my site stats, so you're safe here. I couldn't tell you if I have stalkers or not.
Read on.
Funny. I guess I am your stalker then!
For Heavens sake. POST ALREADY! Your such a great writter and you have such sarcastic witt. Please give a little.
Your unknown reader!
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