Ravenous and Rude

I am a would be devourer of words and ideas. I vacillate between comparing this hunger to a dietary necessity and an addiction; the truth is probably somewhere in between. In any event, this hunger/jones, I fear, sometimes gets the better of me, and pushes the nigh-Victorian etiquette with which I feel so burdened far from the center of my social arena (though what is more Victorian, really, than tossing out all social strictures in pursuit of an addiction?). If/when this happens, I feel the need to apologize to many. If this has ever been an issue for any reading, take this as an abashed apology. If it hasn't happened yet, keep this in mind when it does, and kindly smack me upside the head.