theyellowhobbit

So today in my communities class we looked at virtual communities, and I got to talk about Live Journal. It always shocks me when people haven't heard of Live Journal. Maybe it's just because I spend so much time on here and it's such a big part of my life (I do have a real life, but the fact that I've met so many people through lj makes me think of it as important) that I assume that it must be something in everyone's life, and that even if they don't have an LJ they've at least heard of it.

So I showed my LJ, or at least the public entries that everyone can see, as well as

weirdjews2. My teacher said she wanted to read the entry called "Saving the World Archaeologically" and I had to think back and remember what that actually was about (it's about my methodology, or lack thereof, for the thesis). So I don't know if she'll actually go back and look at my LJ, since it's not like I gave her my username. But then again it's not like I try to be anonymous here. (And if you did manage to find it- hi!)

It's interesting. The idea of keeping a journal online that everyone can see. Do we write to make ourselves worth reading or do we write because we want to document this part of our life? I guess I do both- every so often I will go back and read my old stuff. It's probably a good thing I didn't start journal until college, since I'm sure anything I would have wrote in middle school and high school would have been very emo and angsty and not worth reading.

But then of course I also like it when people read what I have to say. I guess the only way one can really tell if people have read their entries is through comments, or through someone telling you outside of LJ that they saw an entry.
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In to the realm of actual stuff-

Since people are always busy and I need some sort of regular human interaction to make up for my lack of social life this year, I'm now in search of a knitting circle. We had one freshman year through Hillel that was really fun. I had just learned how to knit over break. We would sit for an hour and knit, and Bethany would bring us food, and she had a big box of knitting/crocheting supplies we could practice with and buy if we wanted to. So that's how I started crocheting kippot. She was the one who taught me. But now that she's had her baby she isn't working in Hillel, and no one since her has tried to organize one.

Wow. No knitting group on the list of official Penn groups. Let's check facebook...There's a group called "Penn Knits" that I'm in, but no one has posted anything in over a year, so I doubt there's a knitting circle going on. Which I guess means that I have to start one myself. Which I guess I'll do.