Virtual Soul Mate
Nov 4th, 2005 by jenzug
I love reading Maryam Scoble’s blog. I find so much comfort in knowing someone else out there is married to a geek with tunnel vision. It’s downright creepy how much her life parallels my own.
I especially love how ornery she is. Half the time I can’t figure out if her tone is bitter or dry wit. She’s that good.
Be warned: what you see here is not my best work. It is what Anne Lamott describes in Bird By Bird as a series of “shitty first drafts.” Blogging dragged me kicking and screaming out of creative constipation by getting me to actually write. So I do that. A lot. Without worrying about every word choice or comma placement.
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[...] It was exciting to be at a stereotypically geek event and be provoked by such a thoughtful intelligent display of femininity — I thanked her afterward for a session that my blogging wife would have thoroughly enjoyed (somehow I imagine that my wife’s newfound affinity for Maryam Scoble is just the beginning of us discovering some very cool feminine blog voices). [...]