Disconcerting

The thing about Google Reader is that it shows all new posts in a folder sorted by the time of posting (as opposed to Bloglines which sorts it by blog first).

When the blogs in the folder are the blogs of your friends, and have no other unifying theme, this can get disconcerting. Especially when a post by a joyous, bubbly  girl about how much fun it is to do laundry or to work with her employer or to work on her PhD thesis, is followed by a post by a depressed cocaine-addict friend about how grey and soul destroying the corporate world is.