Fresh Start

I decided I needed a fresh start, a new way to organize my life and adventures. What better way to do that then to begin an entirely new blog, one (mostly) devoted to knitting and what it does for my life and psyche.
Knitting. Yep, that's what I do. It's how I fill my quiet times, destress, and often how I connect with other people. I feel like the people I know the best down here in my 2nd life land are fellow knitters. There's something satisfying and yet sad about realizing that the proprietors of the local yarn shops (LYS, for the knitting muggles), people I barely know, are the people that feel the most familiar to me. I have more fulfilling conversations with people in online knitting communities than I do with people at work or in the community. It's a little frightening to realize that if I didn't have knitting to get me out of the house looking for yarn, I'd probably never leave my house except for work.
Don't get me wrong, folks. I have friends, in fact I have a lot of wonderful friends. Problem is they're all back in home-land. Why do I live in 2nd life land? Well, I moved here for graduate school. Was in a program for a year and realized I wanted to be a researcher/professor about as much as I wanted to gouge my eyes out. :) I dropped out of the program, but moving wasn't really an option, because I felt like there were still things I needed to learn about myself, and I didn't see the point of continuing a nomadic life when I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my future. So I stayed here, in 2nd life land. I'm a 2-day drive from home-land, and of course as the cost of fuel rises, the mere mention of making a trip home makes my credit cards cry.
So here I stand. I can do no other. I'm learning about myself and my life, and knitting carries me through. There's a lot more to me and how I got here, but that will all come out in time. Until then, I'll be wrapping fiber around needles, and learning about me in the process.