Hello there and welcome to my website!
I’m guessing that you probably are either a friend or a family member. Or perhaps you’ve stumbled upon this personal blog of mine because you’re a fan of my work on my day job, which is writing for the celebrity gossip blog Socialitelife.com.
No matter how you got here, I’m glad you’ve decided to visit!
My name is Lisa and I’ve been living in Los Angeles since graduating from the University of Georgia in 2002. I made the cross-country trek hoping to pursue my dream of writing for film and television. I’ve had all sorts of random jobs since I first arrived—hostessing at the Outback Steakhouse in Burbank, acting as an extra on television shows, being an receptionist at several reality TV production companies—but it wasn’t until I started dabbling in writing for the Internet that I got my first paying writing job.
I started my first website in college for a web design class. It was incredibly simple and I loved the immediate gratification that came from creating something and sharing it with an audience with the click of a mouse.
As a receptionist and assistant in publicity, I would spend my free time at my desk tinkering with my site. Inspired by some of my favorite online satire The Onion, I turned my first Internet creation into a fake tabloid entitled Tele-Exploitations! which chronicled the imaginary exploits of my coworkers at Telepictures, the company where I worked.
From there, I started my first blog Office Monkey Blog and to my blogroll, I added some of the online distractions I frequented in alphabetical order. At the top of the list was one of the first gossip blogs created back when Perez Hilton was still Mario Lavandeira. This was none other than Socialite Life.
In the summer of 2005, I answered a Craigslist ad to write for a “major entertainment gossip blog.” Beating out approximately 100 other applicants, I was hired as writer for the site and forged a friendship with the site’s co-creator Michael Prieve that I’m predicting will last as long as I can type.
I’m currently trying to branch out in my writing endeavors and started this website as a place to showcase my various projects. These include essays, pictures, videos and whatever random thoughts pop into my head that I think are worth recording.
I’ve also migrated my old Office Monkey content into this site, since I realized the other day that I had written over 400 posts, some of which amuse me to this day. Because I was just getting into this blogging thing and taking my cues from some of my favorite sassy celebrity gossip blogs—well, that and combined with the fact that I was a lowly assistant in PR who was completely and utterly over her job—I sound a lot more bitter and perhaps over-the-top than I do now. It’s a much happier Lisa writing the blog these days.
Also, be advised that when I first started keeping my first diary at the age of seven, I never knew what to write, so I just recorded what I ate. With that in mind, please don’t be alarmed if you find a meal on here every now and then—which you invariably will.
