Shut up - but I mean that in a nice way

I talk too much. It's a trait my daughter seems to have picked up from me, too. The joke in our family is that she has a speech impediment: she has to stop to breathe now and then. I tend to just ramble verbally when I get started and have to sometimes be told (in a nice way, of course) to just shut it when folks have reached saturation. Of course, not a lot of folks know me well enough to be impolite enough to stop the rambling. It's a shortcoming that I try to be aware of, though, and thus cut myself off when I see my conversational target partner start to glaze over. I'm not always successful in this self-policing, though.

This same communications diarrhea of mine seems to carry over into the online world, too. I tend to think of comments about a lot of things I read and because blogs allow instant feedback, my self-censor doesn't kick in fast enough to keep me from throwing my couple of pennies worth in whenever I feel the urge to do so. In hindsight, I realize that I sometimes come across as a know-it-all or even egocentric when I put up a bunch of comments in a bunch of places. But the reality is that I just have a hard time shutting up.

(OK, maybe I AM a little bit egocentric as evidenced by the fact that I actually enjoy standing in front of a group of people and being the center of attention while trying to make them laugh ... but I'm not THAT egocentric.)