Friday: I hear the Dalai Lama speak at a Seeds of Compassion event. He’s a funny guy, though somewhat more difficult to understand than I anticipated. Later, Craig and I talk our way into a independent fashion event in Capitol Hill. Coincidentally, the founder of the company we pretended to be with happened to be standing in line right behind us, but in the end it all worked out. Afterwards we drop by two different friends’ birthday parties and show Craig’s cousin around Belltown.
Saturday: Craig’s cousin gets us into the Seattle Green Festival, where we load up on free samples. We also talk to representatives from Sambazon and a wheatgrass company and get some really encouraging information about one of our business ideas. The grand opening for Trevin’s photo show is that evening, which we follow with a few hours at the Seattle Green Festival afterparty. Once that closed at 1am it was off to another friend’s birthday party at Viceroy and the Marriott and Noc Noc, culminating in us not coming home until 4:30 am.
Sunday: Up bright and early for breakfast with a friend and his sister, to whom I’m donating my old computer. That was followed in close succession by a noon cocktail party (moral of the event: don’t hold cocktail parties at noon, but it was still fun) and Brandon’s jazz band performance. And I returned home to find yet another job offer in my inbox – but this time, it’s one I can actually get excited about. More info on that once negotiations are complete.
Big weekend. And next weekend looks promising as well, I’m going to learn to make soap and mascarpone cheese!
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Well your weekends sound eventful. I have been doing nothing but S.A.T prep for the past three weekends.I am seriously AMAZED that you made a perfect S.A.T. score. I honestly just want to yank all my hair out.
I gotta give you your props.
Any time I spend socializing I view as time invested in my career. Onnly one of my jobs actually came about because I filled out an application and sent it through the front door. The rest were all about someone I knew. Even my current position at Biznik came about because I met someone at a networking event, became friends with her, went to a second event that she told me about, where I then met one of Biznik’s founders.
If you play the game right you’ll get ahead, it’s just the rules aren’t what they told you when you were growing up.