06-24-10

I have to admit…

I wasn’t entirely sold on Atlanta when I first moved here. A bit before, I was. And then I landed here and everything wanted me to work for AT&T and it seemed like the only thing in Atlanta were Telcos and Medical. Chain restaurants and mainstream clothing shops. I was NOT happy.

But as I am starting to clear up the debris from my long neglected social profiles (major life changes take a toll on your twitter libido)…I started stretching my legs and seeing what was really around. Little geek conferences, jobs at the smaller organizations where I’d like to be, nature, art. You have to be somewhere for a while in order to start peeling back the layers of corporate marketing: dry and dirty, they cover everything and are everywhere because they have the most money to throw around to be everywhere. Peel those layers back and the culture, rich and juicy lies below.

I still have yet to find a vintage clothing shop to love. But on the flip side, there is a huge underground culture of indi designers in the area. I love vintage, but maybe I can reserve my vintage raids for when I got to see the babies or my mom. Things are looking up.