Date 79 - Geek chic
SXSW was in full swing and I was reestablishing my neural pathways to creativity that have been cluttered with corporate cobwebs for the past few years now. A couple of days away from the office does a body good!
After Monday's sessions, I ran into my fun loving freelance photographer friend outside of the convention center and downed a toxic nuclear taco. For the love of god... Nuclear doesn't begin to describe the pain! God bless Amy's Ice Cream for sponsoring the pain relief. An immediately administered scoop of chocolate soothed the shreds of my surviving taste buds.
With our mollified mouths, we tromped off to the Blogger party at Club deVille to mix and mingle with the other geek chic. I met Alex, the lovely author of Girl's Guide to City Life, and her great boyfriend. They must be the nicest people to ever emerge from LA, although I credit that to their time spent in Seattle. The photographer and I chatted with his friend, the filmmaker and a few other random folks before parting ways to go to our separate parties.
I was off to Sidebar for the Lifehacker party. I mean, it was on my way back to the car anyway, so I figured I might as well. Besides, the only time I've ever been in Sidebar was with the Snake, it seemed like a good opportunity to create some of my own independent memories there. I'm not much for bars, but with the conference at least I had a legitimate excuse to be there on my own.
I took a quick walk around and not seeing anyone familiar, I sidled up to the bar to order my Tito's and tonic. I think I was two sips into my libation when G appeared at my right and struck up a conversation. A local from South Austin, G was gregarious and cute in a slightly generic gameshow host sort of way. We wound up talking for ages and what was supposed to be a single drink for me turned into several. The conversation was just too interesting to tear myself away.
After a few hours, G asked if we could go to another bar. He didn't even give me the option of carrying my 80lb craptop which was inappropriately stowed in my conference tote bag; he just picked it up for me automatically. Very sweet. I'm not sure how, but we decided on the Ginger Man, which isn't exactly around the corner from Red River... it's got to be a good 15 blocks away at least. Again, the conversation was so captivating, I didn't even notice the long walk.
We chatted for another few hours. We talked about Austin, Asia, product development, design trends, art... you name it. Good times! G is 30, has a master's degree, working class values and ethics and is employed by a think tank. When he wanted to smooch on me, it was a complete no-brainer. A smart, sexy guy who's passionate about his work and life? Count me in!
How is it that I've never met this guy before? Do I need to start hanging out in bars more often?
After Monday's sessions, I ran into my fun loving freelance photographer friend outside of the convention center and downed a toxic nuclear taco. For the love of god... Nuclear doesn't begin to describe the pain! God bless Amy's Ice Cream for sponsoring the pain relief. An immediately administered scoop of chocolate soothed the shreds of my surviving taste buds.
With our mollified mouths, we tromped off to the Blogger party at Club deVille to mix and mingle with the other geek chic. I met Alex, the lovely author of Girl's Guide to City Life, and her great boyfriend. They must be the nicest people to ever emerge from LA, although I credit that to their time spent in Seattle. The photographer and I chatted with his friend, the filmmaker and a few other random folks before parting ways to go to our separate parties.
I was off to Sidebar for the Lifehacker party. I mean, it was on my way back to the car anyway, so I figured I might as well. Besides, the only time I've ever been in Sidebar was with the Snake, it seemed like a good opportunity to create some of my own independent memories there. I'm not much for bars, but with the conference at least I had a legitimate excuse to be there on my own.
I took a quick walk around and not seeing anyone familiar, I sidled up to the bar to order my Tito's and tonic. I think I was two sips into my libation when G appeared at my right and struck up a conversation. A local from South Austin, G was gregarious and cute in a slightly generic gameshow host sort of way. We wound up talking for ages and what was supposed to be a single drink for me turned into several. The conversation was just too interesting to tear myself away.
After a few hours, G asked if we could go to another bar. He didn't even give me the option of carrying my 80lb craptop which was inappropriately stowed in my conference tote bag; he just picked it up for me automatically. Very sweet. I'm not sure how, but we decided on the Ginger Man, which isn't exactly around the corner from Red River... it's got to be a good 15 blocks away at least. Again, the conversation was so captivating, I didn't even notice the long walk.
We chatted for another few hours. We talked about Austin, Asia, product development, design trends, art... you name it. Good times! G is 30, has a master's degree, working class values and ethics and is employed by a think tank. When he wanted to smooch on me, it was a complete no-brainer. A smart, sexy guy who's passionate about his work and life? Count me in!
How is it that I've never met this guy before? Do I need to start hanging out in bars more often?
posted by Master Dater @ 8:53 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:59 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey you!
I've been rather naughty and lost your card but would really like to get in touch. So please send me an email to alex at alexthegirl dot com if you like!
At 2:57 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hey MD,
I like all the links from your blog, i have alot of fun lookign these up aswell.
A question for you - Do you tell all your friends about your blog and have they read it? I like the anonymousity (if this is a word) of typing and connecting with people that have no clue who i am and can't track me down. It seems i am alot more honest and confortable expressing myself if my identity can't be recognised. Do you also do this the majority of the time with your blog? I have always wanted to get into writing but am petrified of the criticism adn judgement of what i write and others read.
You were rewarded for having the courage to go into a bar by a drink for yourself- you should feel good about yourself. Hang on a tick am just going to check out all these links i have on the other tabs from this blog...
Amy's ice cream webpage is really impressive. Must say i do feel like a scoop after seeing all teh lovely colours on thsi page. The girls guide to city life sounds like something i will definately have to come back to for my delicious idea for the holidays of blogging a similar blog about experiencing the city i live in- through staying with different couch surfers and homestay and guests. These links are all great.
Regards, A
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