I can scarcely believe it: my Google Reader feed now has only THREE unread items in it now (and one of them is my own Propagational Library installment from yesterday, so even that unread is provisionally not in quotation marks). It’s taken me a month to clear the backlog.

Granted, in order to get to this quasi-virginal state I had to completely drop subscriptions to a bunch of fascinating-but-way-too-frequent-to-read-religiously feeds (I’m looking at you, Brain Pickings), and also do blanket “mark all as read” clearings of certain other stacks that I just couldn’t bear to cancel (hello, My Old Kentucky Blog and Bad Astronomer!).

And granted, I still owe comments on some recent posts by, like, actual friends (hang on, Suburban Soliloquy!).

And granted even furthermore, dry desert winds blow through some of my favorite bloggish haunts, which I hope are not actually ghost towns despite the piles of tumbleweeds blocking entry to the saloon (hellooooo, Mature Landscaping???).

Still, it feels good.

(But damn — what if I missed something important?!? Better go switch the Reader view to All (rather than merely Unread) Items so I can check…)