all in your head?

in the almost three years that my blogmate and i have been writing this blog, we've had periods of being more or less prolific, more or less funny, more or less sarcastic... and probably more or less cryptic. sometimes things happen that, although we've de-identified ourselves to some extent, we just feel like don't have their proper place on the internet. so they pop up in passing references, or in, say, a couple of weeks of blog silence. (apparently we're about to start fixing said blog-silence with a new guest blogger feature... speaking of which, where is our guest blogger, anyway? all this excitement and no material?)

the weird thing is that when you write a blog with someone else, particularly someone that you know well enough to share the stories that don't feature prominently here, it seems like the stories take on a blog-like life of their own. all of the secret stories, no matter how boring or neurotic or inappropriate, start with "so, the secret blog in my head goes like this: 'my usually quiet blogmate was unusually quiet that day...'" it's a weird way of taking a step back from a situation, i suppose. but it sure beats stories that begin "let me tell you about my crazy family THIS time..."

i can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it also has the unintended effect of making everything feel like we're on the wonder years or chasing amy or one of those shows/movies with voice-over internal dialogue. now i want to know where my theme music is. i think art paul schlosser's "pink pants" or maybe "have a peanut butter sandwich" would work great.