I spent some time last night at Refresh Richmond.  You can read all about what RR is by clicking the link.  I’ve wanted to go to the meetings for a while, but now that I am trying to get some freelance writing/marketing work, I have to get out and network again.  It was good to see some nerds I haven’t seen in a while, like Phil.  I met my new BFF Carrie Fleck, talked writing (and how blogs can get you fired) with @leashal, made obnoxious jokes with Bradley Robb and tried to listen to Wren and Mr. Sterling’s snarky commentary afterward at Legends. 

My favorite tweet of the night was my own. Sorry but it was.  Here it is:  Fav phrase from #refreshrva: minify. In a sentence: “I’d like to minify my ass.” I still don’t know if “minify” is a word, but it’s now going to be used in my daily vocabulary.  My second favorite tweet came from Bradley:  “I am waiting for someone to yell “You lie!” at #RefreshRVA”

Aside from all the techno-speak, I realized that had I grown up now, I would have been cool.  Sometime in the 2000s, being nerdy became cool. I missed my window of opportunity to be cool, apparently, and now I’m not geeky enough to really be cool anyway.  I’m a geek wannabe. 

Becoming more focused on work is important right now, but I realized how out of practice I was when I was driving Carrie back to her office and I literally felt like I was going to fall asleep at the wheel.  Even though the economy is terrible, I feel more positive today about my ability to get back into some paying gigs.  Lots of my friends are freelancing - some of them are even making money writing *gasp* creatively.  I’ve always wanted to write - in fact, I’ve been writing - I just rarely get paid for it. 

Some pictures from last night, and also from Laura’s very cool house:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdelbueno/sets/72157622236670657/

And since I can’t really talk about anything else in my life right now, here’s the rainbow and unicon picture of the day: