Dear readers,
In early June, Alec is leaving Los Angeles to move back East. It is hard to lose our founding editor, but with his help we are looking to turn this transition into an opportunity. Looking at everything we've learned in the past 9 months we are going to make some changes and grow it to better cover *huge* LA.
To do this, we have already begun talking and working with a few readers and bloggers to create an AT:LA that would be contributed to on a daily basis by between 4-6 bloggers, each of whom would cover a different geographic area: East Side, West Side, OC, Valley, Etc...
The idea here is to really cover LA and begin to pull it together in one central place. We also want to push the envelope. We want a site staffed by locals or wannabe locals who can capture and celebrate the distinctive LA vibe in the context of design—good, bad or otherwise.
We also want your input and are looking for a few more good men or women to contribute. Feel free to comment here or email us at editor (at) apartmenttherapy (dot) com with ATLA in the header. Best, Maxwell
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In recognition of all his hard work and dedication and to wish him well on his new endeavors, I vote for a proper send-off for Alec at the watering hole of his choice. I'll get the first couple of rounds. Who's in?
Enrique-I'm so there count me in!
Alec- you will be missed for sure!!!
Alec I will really miss you! Who will slink to me now that you're gone?
Where are you heading, Alec... NY? Boston? Do tell!
Holly
By the way, is that the official AT-LA editorial digs in the picture? Cuz, I'll volunteer to do the AT-LA weather report from that glassy spot on the right side. I could live in that little area, and look out from bed to forecast "Ahhh, a day of brown crap...wait, lemme move my pillow...nope, it's still brown outside, expected to remain brown outside until everyone drives hybrids"
Alec doesn't want to tell us where he's going or what he's doing when he gets there. Which, of course, makes me more curious.
Will we never hear from you again? Are you part of the Witness Protection Program? I like your humour and the way you write. Someone I'd feel comfortable hanging out with, which is nearly impossible for me to do. I just don't do "hanging out" anymore.
Best wishes in whatever you're going to be doing, wherever you end up. ;)
bummer! we'll miss ya alec!
My new quote of the day: I just don't do "hanging out" anymore. No more apologies for isolating and neglecting my friends and family!
Jen! Hah!
It's not neglecting and isolating your friends and family. It's isolating yourself from outside influences that may serve to alter your core personality from developing into what it truly is.
Re: Parents, check out the Boris' Act of Independence thread in AT-NY. Parent pressure. Yikes. Been there.
People that have come here to show their homes, some have said that the comments (the constructive ones) are more than their "friends" would say. What kinds of friends do we have that don't tell the truth?
They're all so fickle, and the fulfillment of needs goes both ways, so that if either of your life circumstances changed, the friendship would be altered, or dissolved.
What would happen to all these friendships if you suddenly became disabled like I am? Everyone's a twist or accident away from disability. Temporary or permanent.
I can not only not afford to do stuff, I can't physically do a lot (pain). There go all your jogging or workout friends. There go all your cafe and shopping friends. No more movies or beaches or vacations. Every single friend depends on you to be who you are. Right now.
I had a friend, who was my "married, stable" friend. When she got divorced and went after a career, the friendship disappeared. We no longer appealed to each other.
If things can be that pressuring, or change that quickly, why is it that we may spend soooo much time working on those relationships when we don't even know who we, ourselves, ARE.
The only thing that remains consistent is that we're stuck with ourselves. hahahaha. No matter what. Best that we know who we are and can get along fine for the most part without others.
I have a total need to be of service. To be helpful or productive or solve problems or spend the time to find things. Not being able to do those things, here online or in person, or having the contributions I can make belittled, is devastating. Knowing I need this sets the stage for where I can be, and what I am most likely to find rewarding.
How many people out there feel they truly know themselves? Free from outside influences?