I feel very much like one of those poor people that Emily described tonight, thinking "didn't I used to have hobbies?" Though, truthfully, the problem is not so much that I don't have any hobbies, as it is that I don't feel like I have anything meaningful to contribute to the discussion.
Emily referred to knitting last night, and I knit, but I've never made anything that required more than a basic garter stitch. I made a pair of fingerless gloves with a picot edge once that absolutely astonished me as I was knitting it, because I really don't understand how reversing the direction of your knitting needle makes these patterns happen. Seriously, it might as well be magic. The only "contribution" I could really make would be to tell all beginning knitters "Novelty yarn is your friend. It hides all of your mistakes. The end." Wouldn't make for much of a website, right?
Above is a picture of my camera. Well, not my camera. This is a camera belonging to Pickersgill Reef on flickr. I love my camera and I bought it with every intention of learning the ins and outs of photography, but so far I'm still struggling with it, and my friends with cell phone cameras often take better pictures than I do. So I'm not really feeling like I can make a significant contribution there, unless perhaps a rant-y website wherein I expound on the difficulties of nighttime shooting might be helpful to others. Yeah, I didn't think so either.
I also sew, but only when I have a lot of free time, and that's another area where I feel like there are much better people and communities out there than this ex-4-Her whose only original design once inspired someone to say "You look like a pink dominatrix." (That wasn't really the look I was going for, if you couldn't tell by the tone of the last sentence.)
Plus, with this being my last class, I am really feeling the pressure to put together a site that might help me in my job search. One of the best projects I've done for a class was a resource guide on sustainable agriculture, and my immediate thoughts on this project were headed in that direction. Sustainable ag, architecture, libraries, energy... Once again, I'm facing this stumbling block of either having a lot of knowledge or being able to acquire a lot of knowledge, but not truly having experience of my own to share.
Is anyone else facing this problem? In addition to Emily's course requirement of being able to "contribute", I also just have this aversion to cluttering up the Internet.
