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dangermousieHelp me! It's a sickness!
There is somebody who is not on my flist but is on my friends-of-friends list. I am sure she is a nice woman. However, our opinions on everything, from the best-tasting kind of apples to the meaning of life could not be more of a polar opposite. Add to it the fact that I find her come across as sanctimonious and a causehead in a bad way, and you can deduce that reading her LJ gives me spasms of irritation sometimes amounting to rage. I think ultimately is that her personality as it comes across on LJ and mine are intrinsically antithetical. I bet if she said saving puppies was the way to go, I'd find it an appalling and repulsive attitude and start a "drown a puppy in a bucket" campaign.
And yet. And YET. I totally read her LJ on a regular basis. I have no idea why! As far as I know we have no fandoms truly in common (the few times we read/watched the same thing, our reactions were...you guessed it, polar opposite!). I don't know her in RL. Reading her makes me grumpy. Yet I keep doing it. Whyyyyyy?
Anybody else do it - read a LJ or a blog or a news site which irritates you to no end yet you can't stop?
I have no idea why I do it. At least I've never commented in her lj, I have that much sanity left.
There is somebody who is not on my flist but is on my friends-of-friends list. I am sure she is a nice woman. However, our opinions on everything, from the best-tasting kind of apples to the meaning of life could not be more of a polar opposite. Add to it the fact that I find her come across as sanctimonious and a causehead in a bad way, and you can deduce that reading her LJ gives me spasms of irritation sometimes amounting to rage. I think ultimately is that her personality as it comes across on LJ and mine are intrinsically antithetical. I bet if she said saving puppies was the way to go, I'd find it an appalling and repulsive attitude and start a "drown a puppy in a bucket" campaign.
And yet. And YET. I totally read her LJ on a regular basis. I have no idea why! As far as I know we have no fandoms truly in common (the few times we read/watched the same thing, our reactions were...you guessed it, polar opposite!). I don't know her in RL. Reading her makes me grumpy. Yet I keep doing it. Whyyyyyy?
Anybody else do it - read a LJ or a blog or a news site which irritates you to no end yet you can't stop?
I have no idea why I do it. At least I've never commented in her lj, I have that much sanity left.
