More Web 2.0

So I am steadily (and at times grumpily) working my way through the 23 Things list. I have set up a flickr account which I am sure will make me lament my relative lack of photographic talent but which is kind of fun nonetheless. My flickr url is www.flickr.com/photos/littleelephant1 if anyone is interested. There are no photos yet but I'll work on that later from home. I already had a facebook account so I have been able to mark that one off the list. I don't check it all that often honestly but I did hear from a really lovely friend that I had lost touch with so I can't say it's useless. I was actually quite touched that she looked for me. She is a really cool and talented chick that makes me feel cool and talented (which I am really not) by association. I do feel a little exposed as I make more of an online presence for myself and I suppose that is why I never really got into the Web 2.0 thing in the first place. It is less a fear for security as a feeling of vulnerability. I guess deep down I worry about people knowing too much about me. There is power in knowing, right? I know that some of the other 23 Things participants have made up alter egos for themselves so that they wouldn't have an online presence, at least not as themselves. This approach is ultimately not for me, though. I think the act of constructing a facade sounds exhausting and perhaps a little eery. If I am going to be someone online, I would rather be myself.

Bakasana or Bookasana?

Here I am looking ridiculous at the library. I was told to "do something funny". This is all I could come up with.

What if I don't want to Web 2.0?

I have started this blog as part of a work assignment for Texas Wesleyan that involves exploring Web 2.0. For someone who never checks their FaceBook (do those things die if you don't use them?), this is somewhat daunting. However, I have decided to stop worrying about my incredible dearth of exciting stories/ pithy comments/ innapropriate (but hilarious) jokes and blog already. So I will probably mostly talk about what I'm reading and listening to and perhaps bemoan the fact that my house is never, ever clean (I know what you're all thinking but Mike is actually the slob, not me). So here we go. Is anybody still there?

I'm reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery and it is just lovely. In my next life, I want to write just like her, oh and speak French just like her, too.

Mike and I have been listening to Emiliana Torrini's new CD, Me and Armini, and really like it as well. She is Icelandic, just like Bjork, but much more ethereal and less raw. I even play most of the CD in yoga class. Another recent addition to the Yoga Playlist on the old Ipod is Matt Ward's (M. Ward) Hold Time. Also excellent. Of course it is entirely possible that no one really likes what I play in yoga class and they are all too nice to tell me. Let's keep it that way.