What's going on today

Well now it would seem my audience for this blog is increasing. So I take it you like reading about my life? Well I do shoot for honesty laced with some humor. I can't be doom and gloom all the time. Even then I try to share with all of you my unvarnished feelings in that moment. I think if I'm anything less than straight forward then I feel I'm doing a genuine disservice all the way around. As always, you can find me on Facebook or Twitter-http://www.facebook.com/lenorelowen or http://www.twitter.com/glamavon. I usually use those spaces to spout off on just about anything that catches my attention. So what's up today? Not a whole lot. Mom has down shifted her pre-Passover psycho-mom mode a bit. The job search is still a bit slow right now. One thought is to check out employment agencies in the UK. Hey why not? The upside is that it might lead to something great and immigrating would be an easy process. The downside is that nothing comes of it or the immigration process could turn out to be a nightmare. But nothing ventured, nothing gained. Yesterday, I started pulling threads from a self-generated project I started after I completed my thesis. I started taking some notes on articles I downloaded from the University of Southern California library archives. These articles trace the renovation history of the Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles. If you've never been there, you're missing a great experience. It's about to undergo another rehabilitation process and the vendors and locals are concerned that the developer, The Yellin Company, is going to pretty it up too much in order to attract a more affluent clientele. This is concurrent with rehabilitation efforts at the Jordan Downs Apartments in South Central Los Angeles. Jordan Downs Apartments is an apartment complex for low- to moderate-income families. The families that live there are mainly unemployed, under educated, single parent families, former convicts, and so on. Developers on this project want to give it a much needed makeover, but not for the residents already there, in order to attract more affluent residents. It sounds like there's a trend developing here. Part of the process at Jordan Downs is the increase in social services being offered. You have ask why now, all of a sudden? Where were all these service before? What is the goal here? Is it to ease the the transition of the existing residents to places outside the area or is there a more genuine motivation. In the case of the Grand Central Market, the developers claim that they are, in part, responding to the changes in demographics. In both cases you have to ask is the direction urban planning and design are going? Is catering to a more affluent population a response to actual facts or just a way to attract this segment of society? Well it would seem that I have the beginnings of a list of questions I want to ask when I finally sit down and put everything into a cohesive and coherent treatise. Cool, thanks.