From Twitter 01-11-2011

• 11:06:13: RT @inkblurt: Colbert: "The South has been crippled by a winter storm; or as they call it, 'the Weather of Northern Aggression.'"
  
• 11:18:42: Smoothie was healthy, filling, tasty, but COLD! Is there such a thing as a warm smoothie?
  
• 12:59:07: RT @mochamomma: Palin and crew are feeling unjustly blamed for the actions of an extremist. Maybe they can ask Muslims for advice on how ...
  
• 14:56:55: RT @joyomama RT @ebertchicago: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love (Some) Movies Made From #Books I Love. http://ind.pn/hE6l17 #fb
  
• 15:00:20: RT @FashionHistoria Fashioning Fashion @LACMA extended and Now also offering
  #patterns for download! http://bit.ly/h6sLWT #sewing #costume
  
• 19:24:30: RT @tomandlorenzo Most misused word in the fashion industry: couture. We cringe every time we see it. <- no kidding.
  
• 21:12:47: Decided I probably ought not to try and drive in sleet to #fencing tonight. Smart, perhaps, but not satisfying :/
  
• 21:31:47: RT @WornThrough: Anarchists of Style: Anita Berber, Part 2, http://ow.ly/3C6At #fashion #history
  

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just visiting

It occurs to me that with the visits for Christmas and Nationals, I've probably spent more time inside Atlanta city limits in the past year than...a long time, at least. Maybe ever.

See, as often as I've said I'm "from Atlanta", it's not true, not really. I lived there until I was about 18 months old, but I did most of my growing up in the exurbs. I got into the city occasionally through my teen years, but it was mostly for record shopping or clubbing/concerts. I told everyone I was from Atlanta because 1) no one's ever heard of Duluth, and 2) my self-conscious teen self was anxious about being perceived as an awful suburbanite mallrat or [insert cliche here].

This is why I can't answer many questions about what are the best restaurants, nicest neighborhoods, etc.: I really didn't experience Atlanta at that level. Much of what I remember from my teen years has changed dramatically, if it's still there at all - indeed, on both of my recent visits I stayed in the Olympic Centennial Park area which wasn't even built until I after I moved away (1995). I couldn't even tell you how to drive from point A to B because I wasn't allowed to drive :P

As such my recent visits have been an interesting mix of nostalgia and discovery, i.e. "so THAT's how I get to x", "this looks like nowhere I've ever been - because it wasn't here when I was", etc.