Okay, I need to slow down on this somehow - it is simply SO easy to add feeds to google reader, when I come across something interesting - I don't access my feeds for three days, suddenly I have 773 items that are "unread".

Whoo. 

And this isn't because I, all at once, added 100 feeds.  This is one month of finding interesting feeds, adding them (So Simple!), and then going about my business...

It's a problem if it takes me over an hour to even SCAN all the items from feeds that I deem interesting...