of all things I can’t stand in this world are people who think they are above you. we are all human. we all make mistakes, we all suffer and we all laugh. so if you feel your better at something than someone than the best thing to do is offer to share what you know to that other person. without judgment and sharpness. because there will be a time and a day when you yourself will not know and will need that help as well.

treat others as you want to be treated.

I used to work at Folio: - the magazine about the magazine industry -and now and then the editor asks for comments for the yearly predictions list from anyone that’s willing to share…I wrote this back in july 2008.

I’m just waiting to be right on one of them..

NAME: Paola DiMeglio
TITLE: Art director, CMP
SECOND HALF PREDICTION: Sean “Puffy,” “Diddy” Combs will launch his own Trump-like magazine called “White” (to go with his Hamptons/white party theme) … There will be more launches of a Gay/Lesbian Wedding Magazines in light of the new marriage laws … ”Green issues” of magazines will actually be printed on recycled paper and someone will actually use paper with implanted seeds for that “green” effect … MagCloud is going to take off … MagHound won’t catch on with subscribers because no one has any damn time to even read every issue that comes in (I am still on my January issue of FOLIO:!) … The Amazon Kindle will fizzle out … Bonnie Fuller will launch her own gossip/entertainment/fashion show … Perez Hilton will launch his own gossip magazine …

my friend was taking a look at my attempt at blogging and immediately gave me the “your grammar needs work, your missing words..and there are a ton of run-on sentences”..

yep. I know it. I will never claim to be a writer. I think that phrase “run-on sentence” has been on almost every paper I have ever written from the day I could write my own name. Even with that - paola andrea alvarez diMeglio - is a run-on. and alvarez? that’s my mom’s last name, actually her name is maria eugenia alvarez escobar.

I mean I speak in run on sentences, jumping from one thing to the next, thinking about all the things I need to do, have done, and need to redo and just spilling it into my conversations..so how can anyone expect me to take a break? to add a period here and a comma there to show signs of pause or rest? take it as a sign that paola was here. if there is a run-on sentence in your midst I got dibs on it.

just listening to some music today, it’s hard to since I get interrupted a lot during the day and the continuous “are you on the phone?” “paola how should I grab your attention when you have your headphones on?” “should I tap your desk?”…

a lot of the times I feel like saying, nah just hit me upside the head and i’ll know your there..ugh..

on the playlist today is Heart with the tendency of repeatition of stranded..straight on..love alive..

Heart is a rock band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington in the early 1970s

I remember listening with Jen when we were little. We would be couped up in her room with hairbrush in hand, belting out the songs saying we would start our own band when we got money to buy a guitar..

an actual discussion here at work between my editor and myself..

“paola are you on the phone?”

“no. just have my headphones on?”

“are you sure your not on the phone?”