The House that Los Built

I'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.