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New Design and bitch fest (a montage)

December 3, 2004 By pia

Sometime next week my blog will be completely redesigned with user friendly features, and other wonderful things. I am so psyched.

In my last post I talked about how blogging has brought back the joy to writing. It no longer seems like a chore or worse.

The feedback I’m getting has been more helpful than all I received last year when I took two semesters of classes with noted-tell-all-writing-teacher. I could have handled a bitch fest. This was a kill-all-the-possible competition festival of death.

I don’t care if people disagree with my political views; it’s a free country and they’re not attacking me personally. Last year it was personal. I had to keep on reminding myself that I was the only woman/girl in the class who was being published weekly.

Somehow the more I tried the more disorganized my work became. Sometimes it wasn’t disorganized but people would say that it was and I would believe them. It was like the worst day’s of junior high which is how I was able to write the story about me, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and my father in perfect-eleven-year-old-girl pitch.

I’m tone deaf though I live for music. I can’t learn foreign languages but if I hang out with kids I can then write in their tones. I can take myself back to any age from nine to eighteen and remember all the frustrations and happiness.

I have perfect pitch in teenage voices. That and an ability to manipulate the English language to describe what I want to are my only linguist gifts–actually two of my only gifts. But they’re more than enough, I think.

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

Go to archives "August 2004" if you want to begin with the first posts.

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