Life is high school all over again

I had a mantra in law school about how life is high school in a loop. All through law school I saw the cool kids who sat together and partied together and ran SBA (Student Bar Association). I saw the not so cool kids who all joined the same organizations and were always talking about "the man" or trying to convince someone to be "different". Now being aware of all of this, I shouldn't be surprised at how often some people still act like the rules from high school apply.

I submit via Twilight Zone style a story of a woman. This woman has a disagreement with at least two people a year and its never her of course. Since we often are in the same social and professional circles she comes up from time to time as another person gets on her "_ish" list. We all let the person know, its not just them and not to worry about it and then we all have a laugh and move on. Well, one of the quirks of this woman is that she blogs incessantly about what's going on in her personal life. The name of the blog is always cryptic but the details are not and therein lies the reason she has lost a few friends. If you send her an email, it will show up on her blog. Leave a voice mail, the wav. file will be in her next day post. Write a letter, and she scans it in and its a PDF file for the word to see.

All of this wouldn't be so bad but she then emails her friends to read her blog, gets mad when they object to the posts and then passive aggressively posts items to talk at the person. Things like "I know you are reading this". I once asked her (before I was on the list) why she assumed that someone was reading her blog. She told me she checked her ...whatever the gadget is that allows you to see who is reading your blog. Apparently she checks it daily or twice a day. I will refrain from commenting on how I think that's a little paranoid. After venting via the internet, she then tells anyone who will listen and if you don't agree, well then you are on the list too. Silly, yes, but you try telling a lawyer that likes to argue, that she is not right. Did I mention she has been known to spend hours researching items to back up her point? It can be about hair products, silverware, carpet cleaners, or which McDonald's is the best in town. She decides that HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is bad for her, and now anyone who uses it is doomed to a life of health problems.

Well, the other day I am reading a friend's blog who I haven't talked to since high school. We recently found each other online and she is a born again Christian who homeschools her kids. I am thinking about trying homeschooling and I go to her blog. She has links to the side and long story short, one of the links takes me to the new blog of Twilight Zone woman above. Crap. I don't know how the gadget works and I have no clue if she can tell I was there, but I am so not in the mood for her new attacks.

How do you deal with someone who refuses to grow up? Do you sink to their level because that's all they understand or do you remain the adult in the situation?