What is "Levanah"? The word itself is the phonetic for the Hebrew LBNH (lamed-beth-nun-heh) which is an old Hebrew word for "moon". I usually pronounce it leh-VAH-nuh. I chose the word as my first email account name, and I've held on to it since.
If you're here looking for something to do, you'll probably be most interested in my blog over at blog.levanah.com. I'm currently in the process of blogging every day for 365 days, so there's always something new (if not interesting) on that page.
Why would someone do this to themselves? I'm not entirely sure, really. I use this personal blog as an online scrapbook of things I find interesting, projects I've completed, events I've attended, and things I'd like to do. I also use it as a way to share with my friends and family. If blogs didn't exist I'd probably write letters and mail news clippings to family and friends, just like my grandparent's and parent's generation did. I'd probably also invest thousands of dollars in the scrapbooking industry and try to make super-cute scrapbooks (all the while feeling guilty about consuming all of those paper products (and feeling guilty because I'd probably never finish any of those projects, either!)). I sometimes look at the blogs of people who are super-focused and I feel a little silly about my blog, but I'm just not that organized. And I'm not trying to fill a niche or market myself. This is essentially for me. I do occasionally wish I had a few more readers, just so I can have more online friends, but that will come with time. I really just loveLOVElove to read other people's blogs, and this is my little homestead on the internet so that I can share, too. (exerpt from post on 6/14/2010)
I'm also working on a 101 Things in 1001 Days project, and updating this page fullfils 101in1001#83 make personal website all css. A purist might argue that I didn't write it myself, but I didn't stipulate that. I also don't think it's necessary to update the odd legacy pages that I'm too lazy to remove. Cleaning that disaster area stuff up will be a new project item.
This page doesn't get updated very often, so here's my flickr photo stream to make things more interesting:
Apologies for using flash, it was the easiest solution.
[edits 6/7/2010, 6/14/2010]
