So..I am now a blogger

Yes. I succumbed to the lure of the blog after being mock-indifferent to the idea for a while. I suddenly have a sense of home-ownership without the mortgage payment. This is my space dammit! I can write about anything - from the most profound to the literary equivalent of vacuuming naked.

Finding a blog name was more difficult than I expected. MyName.blogspot was long gone and so were other obvious associations. I was skeptical about delving deep into the "natya shastra"(yet was much amused that "shikara", "mushti" and some other hand gestures from the Bharatanatyam vocabulary were taken). Hardly user friendly. I would like to be found. And read. It would be blogger's suicide if I identified myself as something that might never show up on google!

Moving onto favourite flowers and food. 'Quinoa', my current food fascination - simply fascination considering I have not eaten it yet - was taken. I was all set to be "Avocado", but someone else had taken a bite at it. "Lotus", "Hibiscus","Spinach", "Broccoli", "Arugula" were all gone.

Fine! Reaching beyond the mundane now, I revisit my life from "What is it that I like to do". A whole bunch of things surface. I dance and choreograph. I am a software engineer. I am a musician. I am an artist - been doodling since I could hold a crayon. I am a graphic designer - self taught photoshop junkie. I have recently begun trying to write - hello blog! I am beginning to learn the right way to do stage lighting. I am trying to convince a friend who writes poems to let me read and illustrate them - just because I have not done that before. I have conned another friend into believing that the decor of his new house would be safest in my experimenting hands [say NO to valances]. I am researching unusual angles in Indian literature and mythology to find new interpretations for future productions and making amazon.com richer by hunting and buying obscure translations that might not have left academic circles in a long time, if ever.

I am one person who does, and likes to do, many creative things and enjoys all of them and I have had a fair degree of success in all...well, the pineapple upside down cake which had neither an upside nor a down might beg to differ....but I digress...

Alright. The blogname hunt continues with a new focus. "jackofAlltrades","masterofnone","manyhats" - all adopted by other folks with multiple interests and abilities!

Frustrating.

Then, by sheer stroke of luck (google rules!), I came upon the term "hybrid artist". Many cyber accounts of folks who had discovered their many creative talents and identified as being a "hybrid artist" and were, very simply, happy with creating something or other. There was a guy who was a gemcutter/programmer/sailor/bassplayer/painter/mechanic/sculptor/animator. Another was a veterinary-radiologist/painter/writer/chef/photographer. And these were only some things that they had tried and found themselves to be talented enough to identify as one who does that "thing". A common note in all their voices/words was the urge to try anything creative. The clincher was a post about "hybrid artists" on one of the forums I visited. It said "Creative people tend to create stuff in different areas to keep their sanity". That did it. "Hybrid artist" shall be my blog name.

Oh...and I drive a Toyota Prius Hybrid. And I do not vacuum naked..