Went to the Atlanta Yelp party. The proximity of the venue and the timing was the draw for me. Table 1280 in the Arts Center. One free shuttle stop for me. Otherwise, I didn't think it was going to be head over heels fun. Just maybe a good time with some very excited people. But it turned out pretty good. The people were a lot friendlier than I thought they would be. I actually met some people who had read my reviews which was stunning, because you write these things and just send them off to cyberspace, you don't expect that anyone would bother reading, let alone remember who wrote them. It's just like meeting an actual reader of this journal. Yikes!!! But the closeness and the familiarity with which the crowd mingled with each other only went to prove that they've been at this for quite awhile, people like me are just newbies just looking for a release. People kept asking me how many reviews I'd written. If I wrote a review everytime I visited some place, I would possible have about 40. But it just takes too much brain power to put those things together.
Lately, I've been feeling like driving to another city, taking loads of black and white pictures of the city and coming home to show them off on this blog. I haven't used my film camera since I got back from the Las Vegas/San Fran trip, April 2007. And since then, it's been like life, as far as explorative life, has stopped. Don't get me wrong, I love exploring the city I live in right now. I am getting to see different parts of Atlanta that I wish I could have discovered sooner. But I never get that "take your breath" away feeling that I get when I visit other cities. It's like living life, to its fullest? It's an unbeatable feeling...irreplaceable feeling.
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