Sunday, June 22, 2008

Why it's dangerous to write after midnight

Well, for some people, it's dangerous to put anything in writing at any time. There are always critics out there (wherever there is) waiting, no, lurking in the proverbial bushes ready to pounce on anything that someone else dares to put in print. These self-appointed critics love to find grammatical errors, misspellings, poor sentence structure, lack of logic, etc. I know this because I am a "lurker". Yep. I admit it. I'm currently in a twelve-step program to unlurk myself and I've been doing reasonably well. The downside is--I can't read anything except the labels on cans and boxes of food, and then I can only read the ingredients or nutritional facts. That's part of the therapy. I have become so much less critical over the past few days as I've limited my reading material. However, I find that I am only able to speak or write about food items and nutritional values, which is rather limiting and quite boring unless you get excited about serving portions, sodium amounts or how to pronounce certain preservatives that the government allows food producers to use so we won't be offended by odd colors or smells when we open cans of food. I'm working my way up the food pyramid, but meanwhile, it's after midnight, so I'd better mind my peas and carrots and sign off before I'm tempted to venture beyond the "safe zone" and backslide into my critical mass mode....

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