When I first got the email, I thought it was maybe some kind of joke. So I read it again and apparently no, it wasn’t a joke and the crazy people at Intel actually were inviting me to attend their Youth Rock Stars Summit at the Intel Headquarters and I was going to get put up in a hotel and by the by I would also be getting a FREE NETBOOK FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON and was I maybe interested in coming?
I mean, what? No seriously, tell me who is too busy or in possession of too many computers to be all, “You know, actually, I’m all set on a really nice hotel room and a delicious dinner and a behind the scenes tour of Intel and a tiny little computer that’s so cute you can basically put it in your pocket and pet it because it’s so little and oh yeah also it’s TOTALLY FREE??”
No one I know, that’s who.
Which is to say, of course I went to the Youth Rock Stars Summit last month and of course the entire time I was all darting around with my eyes, checking out the social media bloggers and the tech bloggers and the PR people and I was like, “Do they know that I’m wildly inappropriate and that I blog mostly about my vagina?” and I kept waiting for someone to kick me out but it never happened and apparently they really *did* know that I’m wildly inappropriate and that I blog mostly about my vagina and therefore no one was surprised when we went around the room and shared the things we knew about Intel prior to coming to the event and everyone was like, “processors and chips and blah blah computer stuff” and all I heard was “blah blah shit that I don’t understand but if you’d like to talk about wine and sex toys I promise I’ll have something much more coherent to say” and yet I somehow managed to put together a sentence that was more or less, “Intel = computers?” and everyone laughed and I’m thinking no seriously, give me some fucking techie CliffsNotes and then I didn’t know what else to do because the speaker, Mario Paniccia, went back to his presentation and he was off on some tangent about copper and conductivity or maybe it wasn’t about copper or conductivity at all but who the hell knows because everyone was live tweeting smart shit and all I could think to do was tweet about how hot Mario is and tag it #IntelYouth like they told us to do all day and I know I know, but WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SHENANIGANS DID THEY EXPECT WHEN THEY SENT ME THE DAMN EMAIL INVITATION IN THE FIRST PLACE.
And here’s the fucking craziest thing, IT HAPPENED AGAIN. The email invitation thing I mean, except this time it was less about computers and more about cars and food because Best of Tours was asking if I would maybe like to spend the entire day being driven around San Francisco in brand new Chevy vehicles, eating delicious street food for free and also there’s a gift bag at the end that has truffles and jam except they didn’t mention the gift bag up front but I went anyway and that was just a glorious surprise when it happened.
So that’s what I did yesterday. I drove around in a Camaro and ate hot dogs and creme brulee and all kinds of other street food and the moral of this story is that I’m pretty stoked that people seem to want me and my vagina at events that have nothing to do with me or my vagina but please keep it coming because I love free shit and I love being the person that everyone who is actually supposed to be at the event raises an eyebrow at as they’re all, “I checked out your blog” in a way that really means, “What the fucking fuck fuck are you doing here?” and I smile and say, “Oh yeah?” in a way that actually means, “DUDE I KNOW RIGHT??”
In conclusion, please keep inviting me to your really cool shit at which I don’t belong and I’ll keep coming and hitting on the presenters and eating the free food and enjoying the swag. Or, alternatively, if you don’t have a cool event to invite me to you should probably just invite me over to your house instead and we’ll bake coffee cake and drink tea unless of course you don’t like coffee cake or tea in which case we probably shouldn’t be friends in the first place.
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Next time, take me with you. I'm REALLY good at eating creme brulee, and you can talk about your vagina all you want in my presence.
Ah-fricking-mazing. Anything that begins with free hotel rooms and ends with free jam sounds like a great time to me. Wait, did you even mention jam or did I just make that up? Ah well, I'm too lazy to check. Submit comment.
You totally deserve to be invited to do cool shit which has no relevance to your blog whatsoever. You're JUST THAT AWESOME. I would also say that you should take me with you, but I'm in Winnipeg. If you ever get invited to do cool shit in Winnipeg, god knows why you would… but if you do, ignore it. It'd all be like "Here's some snow" or "There's a river, you can walk on it" Cuz its MINUS FUCKING 30 for 6 months. Then its mosquito season, some people call it "Summer". Do I sound bitter? Bitter like the fucking Winter. Well, hell, Summer is almost here and at least the mosquitos are malaria free!
Come to Cambridge and we'll bake lots. I promise. Maybe even a Kahlua coffee cake.
Sounds like you're up to some really cool stuff!
They invited you because they're all techie, geeky, gear-heady, geeky and YOUR PRESENCE makes THEM cooler. Seriously.
If I ever put you up in a hotel, take you for a free meal and give you technological equipment, I expect my money's worth out of your vagina.
It can play board games with me right?
Or can I use it as a pocket?
No?
Deal's off.
I heart coffee cake!..but usually with coffee. I like tea, too. I once worked at a tea shop and now can't enjoy regular teabagging after having so much loose tea…wait that sounds innapropriate….my favorite is earl grey…hmm, also sounds kinda dirty…
blogging for free shit rules the world.
You're more than welcome to hang out in naples, but you'll have to pay your own airfare.
I am drinking tea right now! And vaginas are awesome subjects for conversation, namely the insatiability of mine.
Whenever I get invited to things like that, I always mistakenly think it's because they want me as a stripper. Then I get there all oiled up with my mix-CD ready to go and everyone gets embarrassed. Glad to see you're better at handling such things.
Can you just start carrying me around in your purse?
You're a freaking lucky bitch. I hate you. No thats a lie – I love you!!
I adore you and your writing and you totally deserve all these wonderful free things. Even if I am mega jealous of your talent (me + writing about vaginas = total fail waiting to happen) and how everyone wants a piece of you.
You only pet the netbook in public right? Not your vag?
I agree with the coffee cake and tea thing. I don't want to be friends with anyone who doesn't enjoy both of those.
I need to move to SF so I can take advantage of you.
I mean…
Um…
That's what she said?
5 stars for inappropriate blog posts and fun times at Intel HQ!
clearly you're always invited to crash on my couch and drink wine and make me mac and cheese because that would be awesome. also, how about next time chevy just gives you a car instead because that would be awesome too.
So come to Alabama and I’ll take you to an event for free..wild caving. But you’ll have to get here on your own. You’d fit right in with the underground society! And score some swag.
Awesome!
In a really freaky coincidence, I am totally opening some mail later on today!
You should come around and enjoy the free catering. You will have to bring your own cutlery, and catering. However you will receive a free "note book".
The only email invites I get involve sending my life savings to some offshore account in Rawanda.
What does your vagina have that mine doesn't have? I need free stuff. Other than bar food and movie tickets.
Dude. I want to be your friend. And I tried to say that in the least creepy way possible, but I think I failed.
Either way, I'm totally not in the bushes outside your house. Unless that's how you make friends…
I never get offers for shit like that.
Jealous.
So cool! Sounds like a lot of fun. Enjoy all your crazy invitations.
I mean, at some point, we should make some fucking fuck fuck coffee cake.
And then have it with tea. The glory hole tea.
hunny! i'm new to this city and you are invited over any fucking time you'd like. we can watch katt williams and drink vino all night! thanks for being so amazingly wonderful.
Just discovered your blog today, and I must say that I find you wildly and inappropriately awesome. That is all. Carry on… being awesome.
Wild! This stuff just doesn't exist in Canada, you're so lucky to be able to take advantage of these invites!!
My vagina and I are totally jealous. The last thing we got invited to was a friends house to watch "Wanted".
LOL. sounds like you're starting to be famous for being famous.
LOL. sounds like you're starting to be famous for being famous.
Yay Nicole! Yay Nicole's vagina! It sounds like you're both having a fabulous time! This seems like it was a perfect move for you, my sweet.
AWESOME!!!
Sounds like you are getting closer to this: One day, Nicole plans to be a wildly famous memoirist who demands ridiculous things at press events. Like a sippy cup full of vodka. Or a bowl of Orchid petals and someone to read her horoscope to her in Italian every hour on the hour.
Congrats girl, you've officially made it big! Who says blogging doesn't pay?
You're invited to my house any time…would cinnamon rolls be okay with the tea?
Next time you get a cool invite, can I come? I'm so jealous of your awesomeness. I mean like seriously, how cool!