Integration
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fourzoasI'm tired of living in fragments. Over the years I've had several blogs; I think of them all as still active, but I don't post to any of them with any real regularity. They were all meant to do serve particular purposes. My knitting blog is, well, for my knitting, and my old livejournal was my way of being in the various lj communities I enjoyed and my academic blog was my little tiny secret. And then there's this lj, where I've been hanging out more and more.
Why all these places? In some ways, they're just markers of me trying out something on the web. I also have a Twitter account, facebook and myspace profiles, delicious tagsets, a flickr account, and a host of other things I'm sure I've forgotten by now. But the bloggish space has been the one I've been most attached to; I just haven't been attached to one particular blog and one alone.
I think I'm ready to do that now--to commit to being just me in cyberspace, and this is the place where I'm going to do it. I don't really know why it's taken me so long to decide this; the best explanation I can give myself right now is that I've been worried about my professional life. But, really, how narcissistic is it for me to be worried about that?
Besides, if I really want to post something "dangerous" to my career, LJ will let me post privately. Perfect platform for being myself.
Why all these places? In some ways, they're just markers of me trying out something on the web. I also have a Twitter account, facebook and myspace profiles, delicious tagsets, a flickr account, and a host of other things I'm sure I've forgotten by now. But the bloggish space has been the one I've been most attached to; I just haven't been attached to one particular blog and one alone.
I think I'm ready to do that now--to commit to being just me in cyberspace, and this is the place where I'm going to do it. I don't really know why it's taken me so long to decide this; the best explanation I can give myself right now is that I've been worried about my professional life. But, really, how narcissistic is it for me to be worried about that?
Besides, if I really want to post something "dangerous" to my career, LJ will let me post privately. Perfect platform for being myself.
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on 2008-10-04 11:32 pm (UTC)Seriously, living one's life in one big room isn't always easy, and the internet is a pretty big room.
Hugs and love.
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on 2008-10-05 01:58 am (UTC)Seriously, living one's life in one big room isn't always easy, and the internet is a pretty big room.
That pretty much sums up what I was trying to say in this post; you win at life, my dear!
Love the new icon. I'm furiously knitting on my Cordelia thanks to your inspiration; I started this sweater 2 years ago...
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on 2008-10-05 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-10-05 02:14 am (UTC)good times, eh?
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on 2008-10-05 02:26 am (UTC)It's your fault, and I honour you for it.
You came by, I think to help me pack up when I was moving to Ballground, maybe. Must have been something like that; maybe Terence was with you. You told me I was never going to believe this, but you'd been doing a lot of knitting. I said, "Wow, really? I used to knit!" and I dragged out all that stuff, and then I realised I really wanted to knit again. That led to the job at Nease's, because Susan and I knew each other from other places in our lives, and the rest just kind of rolled along.
Now, I have to spend a goodly part of tomorrow (when we're not cycling around Greenwich, because it's a car-free zone tomorrow!) planning the Christmas Stocking class I'm teaching at iKnit London starting next Saturday.
And I have to say, I'm going to be wearing this jumper everywhere I go this coming week, because I want *EVERYONE* to see it. :)