DScottGRRL

So… I’ve made the transition.

My primary blog spot will be www.icomefromforeign.com.

I’m not getting rid of trusty old DScottGRRL, though, have no fear.

And she will always hold a special place in my heart.

DScottGRRL chronicled my first year in Los Angeles.

It was my first attempt at blogging and I’m very proud of the effort. I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with writing and DScottGRRL helped me work through a lot of those issues.

Wihtout DScottGRRL, there would be no I Come From Foreign.

I realised that a great deal of my posts were about that ambivalence I felt and feel about being from one place and living in another and how it has affected the way I live and interact with others.

I’m not always proud of how I’ve dealt with the conflict, and, unfortunately, a lot of DScoTTGRRL casts a bit of a gloomy light on what it’s feels like to be “from foreign.”

I hope to change that with I Come From Foreign. There is so much good that has come out of my experiences in Trinidad, Miami, and Los Angeles, and I want to feel like I’m a better person for it.

Because I know it was not all in vain.

I am better off now–in life, in love–than I’ve ever been and I want to celebrate that.

That said, there are a lot of posts on DScottGRRL that really capture for me the growing process of accepting where you are now and making the most, hopefully, out of your life as it is now and I’d like to re-share those with you (see below for links to my favourite DScottGRRL posts)

I’ll still be posting to DScottGRRL every now and again on things not relating to being “in foreign” so if you like what you read, go ahead and add me to your feed reader!

Now please go over to I Come From Foreign and let me know what you think! I’m only two posts in but I’ll be aiming to post at least 3x a week. And I’m finally doing my book reviews!

Life is good

• Do-Over
• Carnival in 3 weeks — can we discuss this?
• On Immigrant Literature
• Beer Olympics = Fun OR Life’s Simple Truths
• On the pull of blood
• The Orderliness of Things
• Word to the Weather
• Maybe it’s an East Coast/ West Coast thing
• Well, who tell me?
• On Risk, Reward, and Rejection
• I wish I came up with this myself
• on Reading, Writing and Blogging
• Ode to Sesame Street

(taken in Blanchiseusse, Trinidad)

Happy Holidays, people! Go enjoy your Christmas

Get off my arse and do something cool.

I’mma have one by the end of the week. I promise. Eff five years. One step at a time. Being good to myself.

Maybe something to do with the internetz…

You know what the perks of being in a relationship are? You know when you want a snack, but you’re too lazy to go get one, and you can’t even imagine yourself getting up to go rummage for one, and you ask your significant other, “Go find me something to eat, nuh,” and some of the times, some of the times, not all of the times–so it’s a surprise–and some of the times he does it, and that’s one less thing you have to worry about?

Like tonight.

Those are the perks.

http://letmeholleratyou.blogspot.com/

Excerpt from news story on Herald Sun Sunday (www.news.com.au)

In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Mr Bush said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible to find a leader who could unite the country.

“I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’,” he said.

“Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”

See full story here.

‘Course I got to take care of the whole becoming a citizen thing, but, in these dire times, I think it’s worth it.

Funny how when I did a google search I could barely find any articles by US news outlets calling him out on this madness. NPR buried it in the second-to-last paragraph and didn’t even bother to correct the misconception.

That’s it. Looks like it’s up to me to save this country from itself.

Technorati Tags: bush, mandela, iraq, saddam

I wrote for the first time yesterday in about four weeks. And it wasn’t even for my site. It was for work.

You know, sometimes you get busy: traveling, getting back into the school thing, and, of course, bouts of food poisoning and cold relapses.

Whatever.

Sometimes you just get lazy and you need a kick in the ass.

Sometimes for four weeks straight.

Well somehow I managed to connect foot to posterior yesterday and actually write.

And… I’m back.

But that’s all for today.

Let’s not go crazy.

You got to ease back into that shit… be kind to yourself.

Baby steps.

an inane question to say the least.

I try to stay away from it at all costs.

“What do you do for a living?”

“Where do you work?

Much much better.

It sends up huge red flags when one of the first things someone asks after meeting me is, “ans so…. what do you do?”

Watching, judging….

Kiss off, fool.

Especially when their rationale was to create an in to boasting about what big and important stuff they’re up to.

Umm… hello, my work does not define me as a person, okay?

I am an artist.

I create things out of words and letters.

I make the world a more beautiful place with pretty phrases.

The boyfriend interviewed our extremely talented photographer friend for CameraPorn.net.

Check it out:

AK-47s, Arab Jails and Animal Smugglers: Interview with Conflict Photographer Alex Smailes - Part I

CameraPorn.net is the boyfriend’s new blog–a digital manifestation of his rather extreme new obsession, photography.

Not porn as you know it; just hot gear, delicious photos, and down & dirty reviews.

This has the ability to elevate me to desperate housewife status someday…

Read it NOW!

Up-and-coming fashion and music photographer Kris Krug is interviewed, and shares his thoughts on photography, gear and being a fashion photographer…
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