Its been a long time. I would tell you where I am right now, at 7:40 am on a Saturday but you wouldn't believe me. Okay, I am at all all-girls lock-in. In my defense, this is for work and I totally ruled at Rock Band earlier this morning. I am running on 3 hours of sleep so bear with me.
Lots of newness, and revamped old-ness going on in my life and I am not complaining. Thursday was one of the most social nights I have had since 1997. We had a wine-tasting Valentines day party at work, followed coffee with a volunteer, then, I attended a Twitter fund raiser called Twestival (which I have to say totally bit the big one), and finally my friends' show at Emos where I proceeded to have too many rum and cokes on too little in my belly. Any day involving wine flights AND rum is so worth it.
About Twestival--I am not going to try and explain what it is. Leading up to it I had a lot of mixed perceptions. I hoped it would be the opposite of networking at a conference or some other akward social setting. What I really hoped was that it would be more bar-esque but with a increased pressure to socialize and people only talk in short, ironic expressions just like on Twitter. Unfortunately, it was a lot more like the first one. I did get to talk to some people I already knew would be there, including one of my future graduate professors, so that was cool. Yet the place wasn't really conducive to meeting new people and the poorly selected music was so loud that when you did find someone to chat with you had to yell. I want you to know that I am not being snobby when I say "poorly selected music" - this DJ played Date Rape by Sublime at a social networking event with lots of 40-year old men in attendance. I hope the SXSW Interactive party next week will not suck as much.
I have more to say but am having trouble organizing my thoughts at this hour.
