This post just wasn't complete without a picture of Jake growing out of Prince's shoulder.
I’ve been really, really, really, lazy about blogging the last few months, but after attending a blogger meet-n-greet organized by the ever enchanting Prince Gomolvilas at the Americana in Glendale for friends of Bamboo Nation, I started to think a lot about my blog–about its true purpose, content, and audience. In truth, I’ve never taken my blog seriously, so I’ve never really given much thought to any of these things. Anyway, we got some interesting questions going during our meet-up and now that I’ve thought about it a little, I’m going to try and answer them as honestly as possible, if only for my own sanity.
Why did I start this blog?
Out of spite, boredom, and necessity. Let me try and illustrate what my brain looks like. It’s an office full of crazy people who drink too much coffee, who run up the aisles of cubicles frantically making copies of things, spilling things, knocking things over. Behind one desk is a musician whose job it is to make sure the right song is always playing at the right time. Across from him is an artist, her desk is located in front of my eyelids. Her job is to paint all that she sees and give it to my secretary to copy and file accordingly. Unfortunately, all I could afford was an impressionistic painter, which explains my sometimes fuzzy logic. Then there’s the editor who goes through the filing cabinets on a daily basis because they’re flooded with too much information, so his job is to throw out what is unnecessary or no longer important, or too old. That trash is what ends up here. The things that for one reason or another I can’t keep in my head. See, I’ve always had this fear (and this dates back to when I wee years old) that my head was going to explode because I just had way too much going on in there. It’s kind of like when I used to be afraid to eat watermelon because I thought if I swallowed a seed a watermelon would grow in my stomach. It’s a common fear.
See, I’ve come to truly understand, that my brain’s trash is another brain’s treasure. What I throw out gets recycled into someone else’s and vice versa–it truly is a beautiful exchange. Those things I throw out often come back to me improved. Make sense? If it doesn’t let me tell it to you this way:
A few years ago I got hired to sit behind a desk, answer phone calls, and smile at people. Sounds easy, right? Not for someone who has the need to constantly be doing something. I’ve always known that I wanted to write for a living. I didn’t care which medium, as long as I was doing it. So with nearly six hours to kill a day, I knew that I couldn’t just sit there playing crossword puzzles all day and that the best way to become a writer was to *drumroll please* write. Blogging was hot, so I thought why not? It didn’t have a real purpose then. I didn’t even care if anyone read it, with the exception of one person. All I knew then, was that if I didn’t write those crazy people inside my head were going to become suicidal and jump right out my eyelids and leave me completely blank.
My first few years of blogging were fun, but then I got promoted and didn’t have as much time at work to blog and of course when I come home I hate turning on the computer. I still use one most of the time at work, but I’ve got a lot more to do. Moving forward with my blog, I know that it won’t exactly be all that I want it to be because of the time factor, but I do hope to keep it alive. At least as a place that I can come to and share thoughts, stories, a song, or a funny video with anyone who’s willing.
What’s behind the title?
Ashley Aguirre. Well it’s my name. Someday I may have some claim to fame and will need to own ashleyaguirre.com, so I thought why not now? Might as well hold my place.
Okay, I’m kind of tired of writing now and I’ve got a psychology exam to study for.
‘Twas a Sunday well spent. Thanks Prince, for getting everyone together! Can’t wait for our next quarterly. I loved everyone’s stories.
Check out these blogs, I look forward to reading through them. A great bunch of interesting people in the blogosphere (and outside of it, too):
Noel Alumit - The Last Noel
Jake Bradbury - Jake & Will: Video Contest Warriors
Donovan Keith - Another Actor in LA
Cheryl Klein – Bread and Bread
Louise Larsen - Louise on the Left
Scott Lowe - Tropico Station
Peter Varvel - Plastic Bubble World
Stephanie – The Water Glass
