Oh, thank you so much for asking! I'm delighted that you would want to join! I hope you don't mind, but in looking at what other people do on their design journals (I'm still very new to this designing-stuff) it looks like most people set their communities as "closed" to membership but ask that people who are interested "friend" the comm instead. I think I'm going to follow that example (as it seems to work well for other people) and all the posts here will be most definitely be public -- nothing just members. So, if you're still interested, I'd be ecstatic to have you as a friend of the comm!
And thank you again for asking, cause I should probably mention this somewhere in this post! One day, I hope to be organized!