I’ve just added my dear friend Somewhere Bean to the blogroll, now that I know she blogs. You may recognize her as Reno Rhetorician from the comments.

But what really brought me joy is that I think she’s the perfect transition in the list — which I can’t seem to organize any way other than alphabetically — between Sean and Susan Crawford. It always did seem strange, but very me, to have my old friend the Vegas lighting guy next to the hardcore communications/technology legal academic I know slightly. But Somewhere Bean, my old friend the quirky environmental rhetoric academic & former techie — who happens also to live in Nevada — seems like the perfect transition on the list.

And in case you’re curious, the list started out as a list of my friends, especially friends from high school but also more recent friends, who blog. But as I began to find other interesting blogs online, I added them. I can’t quite bring myself to take links down, even when the authors seem mostly to be done with blogging.

(That currently includes the work-sponsored one; I’ve been told I can continue posting to it if I want to, but we are transitioning to a new approach to the professional blogosphere sometime in the near or nearish future. When I learned about the new approach, my commitment to  the existing one flagged.)

At this point, I actually know, in real life, the authors of 18 of the 30 blogs. I think I’m going to become more serious about taking down blogs that don’t get updated, at least for people I don’t know in real life. I just can’t bring myself to "de-link" my friends.

The majority of the others I found looking for blogs of other pregnant lesbians, lesbians trying to concieve, or new lesbian moms. The librarian theme is partly random, partly because I know a lot of librarians, and partly because I’m interested in a lot of the same issues as many tech-savvy librarians, and a lot of them write well. And a handful I found while surfing at random, but they write well and have something interesting to say.

More about my weekend in class later. It was very interesting, and I think it will generate a lot of blogging as well as real-world conversations between now and the next full weekend of class.

PS I don’t think I’ll be blogging about the amusing search terms that get people here in the future. After the last time, I got a spike in hits from people looking for (frankly, creepy) p0rn. There’s probably no getting around that if I keep using the word lesbian, but I’m going to try to keep other high-pr0n-probability terms (like the correct spelling of that one) to a minimum. No more reviewing Hollis Gillespie books.