Julia's Mexico City

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So, for days and days I have not been able to upload pictures. There are some work arounds (from the blogger help boards) but I've also been busy with the kitchen redo and visiting my sister.

But I have been looking into Typepad and I think I will be switching soon. It costs money, but I'm guessing when you pay money, there is CUSTOMER SERVICE!!

I'm grateful Blogger is free, really. But now I'd like to have some service.

But I don't know when I'll switch over as we have lots more work being done on the house next week....so many distractions!!

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Blogger is having issues with its image uploading software. So I'm a bit hamstrung to blog!

Hopefully it will be up and running soon....

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Whew, what a week it was! You read about most of the highlights already: my new gig writing for Metroblogging Los Angeles and also being included in the Slideluck PotShow on Friday night.


But before that, I spent Thursday evening listening to some fellow bloggers at the LA Bloggers Live event at Tangier Lounge. This was created and hosted by leahpeah. The evening was splendid. I got to meet again with David Markland (who "hired" me on blogging.la) and Will Campbell who I met back in March at LAX. Cybele was also there. She writes for Blogging.LA as well but is known for/famous for Candy Blog. I also met Clifford who blogs at Asymptotia (and who has a very appetizing picture of tacos on his site today and now I'm getting hungry.) I look forward to the next live event and will definitely be reading something then.

Blogging is a new world for me. I started my bookshelf blog in late 2005 as an exercise to see what blogging would be like. I realize that starting a blog is like getting a tattoo. You have to really know what your focus is, just like you need to know what exactly your tattoo will be. A blog is probably slightly less permanent, but no less important. (Yes, I have tattoos, and yes, you can see most of them if you ask me.)

I started this one last year as a way to share pictures from Mexico City while I was working. Little did I know what this would all lead to. (What is this all leading to?) I didn't expect I would make more friends through it. I didn't expect to get to know LA better through it. I didn't expect to be much more community oriented through it. But I have and I love it.

And now back to the recap...

Friday Night at the Slideshow. The place was packed and the potluck was great -- a wide range of delicious homemade and restaurant bought food. This was a new experience--joining in a crowd of artists in a new world I know not much about. I know the movie world, am getting to know the bloggy world, but art and photographer? Stamp a "NEW" sign on my forehead. Make that "n00b".

There were 30 artists in the show and I was in the second half of the presentation.

I was proud and pleased that my work stood up next to the group. There were professionals and amateurs alike represented, some very commercial and some quite arty, all fascinating in some way.

Being in this show is going to help me focus my photos into collections and prepare for future shows, be they SlideLuck PotShows or actual gallery events. I have no idea how to make it happen, yet, but I will start asking a lot more questions.

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Oh boy. This is a rambly post for a Sunday. But I'm hitting "post" and moving on because I have to:
Call my niece for her birthday
See a movie (probably Die Hard)
Update our bills/quicken
Wash clothes
Prepare for WORK tomorrow. (Yes, I got a short job, at an office, and I have so few "office clothes" these days....)

I hope you all had a great weekend!

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So what do I read online every day? Some days the order varies, but generally it goes like this:
Home page is: Daily Variety. We have an online subscription and I sometimes read it in depth, I sometimes just scan the headlines.

Next comes my own Yahoo page. I personalized it with many sections of news, world news, business news, entertainment news, most emailed pictures, weather, stocks and political cartoons. (Today we bought stock in Applied Materials.)

Generally next is my google home page to check my secondary email account there. My email newsletters go to that account.

Once I've check out the world, I start in on the local and that would be Metroblogging Los Angeles. I link to their stuff from time to time. Metrblogging has many many cities on their site -- click on their map to see if you city is represented. If it isn't, you could start one up!

Next comes Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. Hard to explain what this site is, so go there and peruse at least ten or twenty articles to get a full taste of what they write about. I have learned many things about these series of interweb tubes we spent a lot of time on.

Then, Consumerist. Great site about "Shoppers Biting Back." The site is updated frequently, as is BoingBoing. The comments are fun, sometimes annoying, but always interesting.

That is my main set of reading in the morning. I don't read any actual newspapers, never got into that habit.

During the day I'll click around to catch up with any or all of the following:

dooce
LAist
Upgrade: Travel Better
Joe's Pila-T-Shop (My friend Kira!)
Sommer Designs (My friend Carrie!)
not martha
Go Fug Yourself

And of course, my number most favorite of all time:
Cute Overload! :)

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