I TOTALLY know what you mean, Ozze! I feel the same way about myself (here's where my reply stops being about you and starts being about me!). For me, the hard part is finding a comfortable balance between rattling on about myself vs interviewing the person I'm talking to. I notice that I do it more when I'm uncomfortable, but especially with shy people, I tend to overcompensate by drilling them with questions because I'm not comfortable with silence. My fiance taught me a little bit of patience -- he is the prime example of someone who normally would make me nervous when I first met him. Our first date was an exercise of me bombarding him with questions and him replying with 1-word answers. He didn't ask any questions about me... because I always filled in the conversation gaps with more questions. But the reason I did it was because I was trying to hold myself back from babbling on about myself.

I don't have any solutions (except, why don't you go for a run! ); just thought I'd let you know that I can relate and am self-conscious about doing it too, and that I have made the problem worse by developing a solution but overcompensating. Life is a continuous struggle with self-improvement, isn't it?