That Nerdy Chick Goes All #Hollywood
Wow. That's kinda all I have to say about that. What a little adventure. It started off around quarter to 8, when I parked my car in Hollywood. I have 5 ... not 1 ... not 2 ... but 5 outstanding parking tickets. See, in the last year, I've been bartering social media to live. For reals, haven't had more than $10 to my name for a year (read the About Us for the DL on that shiznat) ... and so, I park on Orange St. and I just chilled in my car for a minute to answer an email. Low and behold, this cop comes up with a flashlight and is scoping my license plate. I was all ... oh fuck, I am SCRREEEWWEEDDD!! Hello, jail time Jen! See, when you get to 5 tickets, I'm pretty sure they issue a bench warrant. Fortunately for me though, I have out of state plates, a lot of lawyer friends, and I'm pretty good at breaking situations down to figure out how to get out of 'em. So, I sat there for a second in my car and just thought, alrite - now I'm screwed. This was a nice run ... she signals me to put the window down, which of course I do ... and then tells me that I can't park here without a permit, to please be on my way. I said, not a problem officer - she never ran my plate. I didn't get arrested. #SCORE!!!!!!! I then parked by my old apartment, where I knew was permit free and hustled on over to my meeting.
I then got to chillax with @DanaBrunetti this evening, and what a rad existence. For reals ... I got invited to this thing at the Roosevelt ... cue 4sq checkin:
It turned out to not only be a thing ... but a very LA thing ...
I'm not a very LA chick anymore. But I sat there in the lobby waiting for my meeting, and dude - totally bumped into @derekhousman and @hotrodrodda who I haven't seen since my homeless ass used to sit at Cafe Solar all day. HA! Dude, the best free wifi in LA ... and free water. Total awesome sauce ...
Dana with the most popular Halloween costume this year. HAHAHA!! LOVE me some Bed Intruder!!! Either way, just by sitting there, so many people came up to me and started networking. It was so weird - a few of them seemed fairly legit too. I told this woman the name of my website, and she asked me if I had heard of this specific award show ... I told her I had, and that it honestly sucked ... but here were the reasons why ... constructive suckage FTW! She seemed pretty happy to hear something so frank, gave me her card. Liked that lady ... don't know why, good vibe. Totally following up.
But yeah, even BEFORE the meeting began, I could have just called it a night - but I don't think I could have grasped what I was in for.
I then see @DanaBrunetti, super cutie patootie pants. He introduces me to his agent .... then we get whisked away to this back area. Like back ... like way back ... like I have been in a lot of the little enclaves at the Roosevelt, but I had honestly no idea that this part existed.
Dude, that little patio-ish area was so cool. The people that were there ... wow, dude it was epic. Like epic epic. Like so epic that I am keeping my damn mouth shut. That's the thing with what I do ... this honestly happens to me a lot. I show up for life every day - and life just gives me a lot of cool shit to play with. It's pretty bitchin. I'm just a crazy nerdy chick with nothing to lose, and a lot of connections in social media - yet the IRL component of it is just spectacular. Dude, I knew Dana from twitter, yet hanging out was like pppffftt! nuttin honey!
I got to hear a lot about the back story to the Social Network, which as Dana puts it was like porn to me. For reals ... its still no joke, out of the 3,000 something posts I've done in the last year, reviewing The Social Network was still my favorite. It's so astounding to me how much of the industry has changed, and how much social media has just become EVERYTHING. Like EVERRYYTHIINNGG!! And dude, even they get it. It's total insane balls. If you ever wondered, right now is just the BEST BEST BEST time to be alive. Hands down. Go, get off your ass, and live the life you've ever dreamt about living. Because its here ... like right right here, and its just waiting for you to come and get it. So ... GOOO!! =) =) =)
And now my nerdy self is already back to drinking crap Keystone Light beer, and sitting in @tgumb's Sprit Hood.
Peace out home slices!!!!! xoxo
