donna my dear,

i'm pretty sure it's not a chicken and an egg thing, this connection you mention between bloggers and avid knitters. but i do know there is an amazing solidarity among those who happen to do both. it's easily evidenced by stephanie's shennanigans. that woman can get every online knitter to do something, and probably within 24 hours. the last round up was donating to doctors/knitters without borders. she rustled up a couple hundred thousand dollars in a a couple of weeks (never fails to make me verklempt). she also was behind the knitting olympics, which turned out to have more participants than the olympics themselves. an amazing, funny, and humble woman.

there was the huge crafty uprising to raise money for the kim family this last holiday... that courtesy of lisa condon. and once you've been in the middle of this crazy crafting community, in your head these people you've never met are invisible friends of a sort. "oh yeah, lisa's show opened in LA". because you read it on her blog. it goes on and on. i suspect that other groups have some sort of similar thing. although the bonding on brian's motorcycle forums takes the form of photoshopped pictures of a big black girl in a miniskirt on a motorcycle, but i digress...

or if it's WHY knitters need blogs... well. it's probably partly showing off, and needing a shoulder to cry on after one has ripped back some nice lace for the 6th (or 18th) time. but hell, i only reluctantly understand myspace. :)

i could blather on and on. insert social dissertation on virtual communities. :)

if i could pick one thing to understand (at least for the next 24 hours or so) it would be frickin' insurance plans. i've had my share of dumbass office jobs involving insurance (some people waitress, i used to do a lot of medical billing). but this stuff makes me nuts. the one brilliant thing about the mothership was the insurance. it's usually the only thing i miss. in the meantime, i'm crunching numbers on the regular insurance that mere mortals get and trying to figure out what to do since there are a few things up in the air.

that and trying to not pee my pants when i sneeze. pregnancy is fun.