and I ended up going. I wasn't sure if I would, since a lot of people I like to see were out of town or doing other things, but in the end, it was a Friday evening and I had time to kill, so why not?

I busted out my new rust-red Ermenegildo Zegna dress shirt and my favorite black suit, since I figured it was time to step the fashion game up. It ( Read more... )

It's a mark of how blessed I am as a person to have too many social events to deal with, as opposed to too few. This weekend was a perfect example of that. ;)

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This week has been utterly warp-speed on the work front, so much so that I didn't have time to sit back and ponder how aggressively social it's been as well. It seemed like I was out at some kind of event almost every night, and it made for a welcome counterpoint to the craziness of my business life.

Wednesday evening I stayed late at Big Monkey ( Read more... )

Wednesday evening I attended a course on breaking into magazine/newspaper writing sponsored by MediaBistro. I was a little disappointed--most of the information was stuff I already knew, and the hostess, while funny and energetic, was really flighty and disorganized ( Read more... )

I want to take a moment and shout out the first two big D.C. blogger get-togethers of 2007, both happening this week. Copied direct from DC Blogs:

Wednesday: The Washington Blogger Meetup Group will gather at 7 p.m. at Regional Food and Drink 810 7th St. NW. These are very informal gatherings and everyone is welcome ( Read more... )

Last night
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Late 2005, at a blogger meetup over at Mackey's, I chatted up a very attractive brunette who told me she was working for a big health-care startup that was gonna go great guns in 2006. The company turned out to be Revolution Health, who I interviewed with last summer to handle updating their privacy policy ( Read more... )

Courtesy of DCist, I found out about the Post's local blogger invitational. I'm really jazzed to see a major media outlet like the Post embrace blogs and blogging to the level they have, and this is another great step. D.C. has such a vibrant and wonderful blog community that I'm sure they'll find no small amount of people who can step up and write ( Read more... )

Here, on the last day of the year, is my rundown of how 2006 went for me:

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So I rolled up to the Lovers' Happy Hour last night, and here's what was determined:

The View From Dupont has so much energy and stamina that she should be marketed as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. She is so gully that she has random dudes from Baltimore texting her looking for a hookup. :)

I'm apparently DC Cookie's "backup ( Read more... )