I met a guy at the NWIAG mixer who runs a fashion consulting service for businessmen. There’s some overlap there with classes I’m interested in teaching, so I set up a lunch meeting with him at the Columbia Tower Club. We connected, traded some great ideas, then I headed off to work on my Thirty Day Challenge stuff (we’re already up to #6 on Google and are getting traffic, now the question is if the traffic will buy…). Hanging out in the Tower Club Library, I met a woman who used to work with the Dale Carnegie Institute who wants to chat more about our respective takes on social development (awesome) and another woman who is a business coach and suggested Discover U (the Seattle version of the San Francisco Learning Annex, an adult learning center) as a great way to get started teaching. Another fantastic idea!
Craig then discovered another networking event through Zoodango four blocks away, which we of course headed to. There were only two people there, the CEO of Zoodango and one of his friends. Both of them had been contestants on past seasons of The Apprentice, so we traded reality TV stories and business ideas until it was time to head to…
Volunteer ushering with Alexandra! We saw a great play (The Mojo and the Sayso) at the ACT Theatre, for free of course, because we were volunteer ushers. The nice thing about volunteer ushering is that you can take any open seat, which was how we found ourselves front row and center. I was close enough to blow out the candles onstage.
After the show we headed off to a free dinner at one of Seattle’s finest restaurants. Dinner was delicious, but the chocolate-ginger cake with muscatago (? some kind of sugar cane that only grows in volcanic ash?) ice cream blew my mind. Drool…
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How come you don’t have a cool pick up show on VH-1 ????