Hello. My name is Lav, and I like cosy stuff.
Recently I watched a video from angieblah where she talked about making an indie website, and though I didn't want to make a whole website I did really love the idea of old fashioned blogging.
I say old, but it's not that old, honestly.
I'm currently thirty something and a bit, and I remember the days of myspace blogging and early tumblr. Days when my back wasn't made primarily of bubble wrap and good intentions, and where the intnernet was just thirty seconds of modem howling away (and which cost 25c for the privilege). Another video I watched recently by Sarah Davis Baker titled, The Internet Used To Be A Place really captures the spirit of what I'm talking about, here. My family had a 'computer room', and the computer was this god-like creature that held so much character and promise, and hours and hours of The Sims gameplay. And when I was done with it, I would turn it off; just like that I was disconnected from the whole world and back to the little bubble of my room, my house, my street.
I miss that feeling.
I'm currently studying a masters degree in teaching, and one of the subjects I'm doing this semester centers around digital technologies (with a curriculum focus), which seeks to help us pre-service teacheres understand the digital world that kids live in. I know what that world looks like, I live in it probably more than most of my peers and contemporaries. I'm sad that my students won't get to experience the cosiness of disconnection in the way that I did back in the computer room of the 2000's, nor be interested or curious about it.
But I am! That's why I'm here.
I'm also really interested in this idea of not curating a sellable product version of myself online. I just want to have place to put my photos and talk about my experiences, but also one where I can make friends or acquaintances (I'm an introvert, this is how I make friends).
I could start another journal, but the primary disadvantage of a journal - despite how cosy and comfortable hand writing is - is that it stays with me. I like the social aspect of social media, just not all the algorithms, the commerce, the desperation to be noticed, and the other garbage that comes with it.
I want a buddy I can show my scrap-book too, basically.
Anyway. My tea has gone cold but that's okay. See you 'round!
