Cyber Community

Community is important to me. It was a touchstone of my undergraduate university, Taylor. It is the foundation for the Acts 2 Church. I think we were meant to live in community. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henry Nouwen, Larry Crabb, Donald Miller, among others, all write about communities--how and why they function. God created us to do life with other people (just as He exists in a community--the Trinity).

Okay, my point in this post (before the title I gave it got me off track) was to say: Blogging is nifty. Not only because, I can keep up with friends and they with me, etc. My personal community benefits. But also, the more I read other people's blogs, the more I see a community, beyond the people I actually know, existing. I have found a number of academic blogs that I have only begun to read and appreciate. Because I am going into academia and hope to one day join their ranks, I am intrigued to see what it's actually like.(I enjoyed the site, An MFA is a Terminal Degree.) But, this post and its comments struck me as a) hilarious, and b) a wonderful display of ideas, thoughts, and people truly dialoguing on the internet. It helped me remember all the good, productive things that can come from the net other than the time it seems to suck from my powerless body as I sit comatose in front of my computer screen, my portal into the abyss.

The hum-drum of my life: I'm on spring break and will hopefully be 1. very productive and finish my two papers for my classes as well as grade everything in my world and 2. go to IN to see friends (whom I ought to contact and make concrete plans with...).

I've not watched much in the way of actual movies, just trashy mtv, adultswim, and Queer Eye. I haven't even read much. I have anxiety about devoting my precious break time to the wrong material, so I waste half of it choosing something I end up not having the time to finish. I have started knitting a lover-ly scarf and will soon begin a nifty bag with an Aran knitting pattern.