http://seanmcgrath.wordpress.com/2006/05/03/im-an-information-glutton/ Where Ideas Hang Out and Do Whatever Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:00:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://seanmcgrath.wordpress.com/2006/05/03/im-an-information-glutton/#comment-8 wraith Fri, 05 May 2006 09:05:10 +0000 https://seanmcgrath.wordpress.com/2006/05/03/im-an-information-glutton/#comment-8 The following isn't facetious. Your description is me all over. It's a pathology, like OCD. I've wasted literally the last several years of my life doing this -- and I mean "all day", as I don't have an office life. Intellectually I accept the truism that "this life isn't a rehearsal", but I keep treating it that way, i.e. spending all my time getting ready for things I'll do someday. I wonder if this might be an officially acronymed syndrome, with support groups, etc. ... The following isn’t facetious. Your description is me all over. It’s a pathology, like OCD. I’ve wasted literally the last several years of my life doing this — and I mean “all day”, as I don’t have an office life. Intellectually I accept the truism that “this life isn’t a rehearsal”, but I keep treating it that way, i.e. spending all my time getting ready for things I’ll do someday. I wonder if this might be an officially acronymed syndrome, with support groups, etc. …

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