Weaving it together

I’m trying to organize my online life. It’s actually feeling doable, which is probably because I’m outside my normal life right now for the holidays and have a lot of time to kill. For someone who has never thought of herself as a blogger (it’s just such an ugly word), I have quite an array: a defunct political/musing blog, a neglected knitting blog, a growing photoblog, and a moderately trafficked personal journal.

Anyway, I noticed a bit ago that my interests, which have always seemed so disparate, have a common thread: HOW I am interested in them. It starts when I get bit by interest in something, usually through a friend but sometimes de novo. At first I totally overdose on reading and talking about it and starting projects in it, some of which I finish before it fades. Fade it always does, and a few projects go unfinished and books go unread, but the knowledge is mostly intact. Some get integrated into my life, some lay dormant until I get re-obsessed, but they all come back and they all stick around to some degree.

Hence the blogs: I knit, I (used to) mainline politics and I am now taking pictures. Obsessions I haven’t started blogs about: working out, baseball, online dating, singing, film, driving/BMWs, iProducts, wine…In six months who knows? I might be leading a chavurah or reading at poetry slams. (A baseball re-obsession is a safe bet for next summer, though. Especially if the Cubs sign Tejada!)

And now, you’ll be able to read all about it in one convenient location!