the entire time he was explaing all this my brain was screaming.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW THE INTERNET WORKS!?
"wow, Patrick, that's pretty awesome."
so we got to the Joey Tomatoes just before 11:00 and we met two other people there. Patrick sprung for some appetizers and everybody (except me) got to talking about how everybody else was cos everybody fucking knew everybody else. over the next hour, roughly a dozen more people came in and sat with us. i found out that many of them were unemployed or contract workers or bankers or going to school or or or who the fuck were these people? everyone was confused by my portfolio, but were very impressed when they looked at it. so that was something. Patrick passed out markers and post-it notes and took down everyone's contact info. i think at this point i knew there was no job for me since this was just a huge networking circle-jerk for Patrick (he even took the waiter's number) so i decided just to roll with it.
after collecting all of the sticky notes, Patrick stands on a chair in the restaurant and explains to everyone what he told me in the car on the way over. he then asks the waiter to bring over not one, but TWO bottles of Dom Perignon (retail $231 per bottle according to my store); however, the waiter let's us know that there's a huge party coming in and we're in the only place in the restaurant big enough to seat them. Patrick offers that since our party is nearly finished, we could just move to somewhere else.
so there i was: downstairs in the lobby-outside-the-bathrooms drinking $231 champagne with 15 people i didn't know and a waiter, getting my picture taken because i was going to change the god damn world.
but that isn't the end of the story.
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