February 28, 2010

intel, street food, and serious events people keep inviting me to even though i’m me and what the hell

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.

{ 38 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Camels & Chocolate March 1, 2010 at 6:31 am

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.

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2 chiefy March 1, 2010 at 6:43 am

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.

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3 Kirsten March 1, 2010 at 6:52 am

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!

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4 Her March 1, 2010 at 6:59 am

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!

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5 Lori March 1, 2010 at 11:45 am

They invited you because they're all techie, geeky, gear-heady, geeky and YOUR PRESENCE makes THEM cooler. Seriously.

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6 Ben March 1, 2010 at 12:29 pm

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.

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7 Josef March 1, 2010 at 1:08 pm

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…

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8 MODG March 1, 2010 at 1:56 pm

blogging for free shit rules the world.

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9 O.G. March 1, 2010 at 1:58 pm

You're more than welcome to hang out in naples, but you'll have to pay your own airfare.

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10 Gini March 1, 2010 at 3:13 pm

I am drinking tea right now! And vaginas are awesome subjects for conversation, namely the insatiability of mine.

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11 Phil Villarreal March 1, 2010 at 4:18 pm

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.

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12 Doniree March 1, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Can you just start carrying me around in your purse?

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13 Lacey Bean March 1, 2010 at 5:17 pm

You're a freaking lucky bitch. I hate you. No thats a lie – I love you!!

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14 Manderz March 1, 2010 at 10:39 am

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.

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15 Elly Lou March 1, 2010 at 6:11 pm

You only pet the netbook in public right? Not your vag?

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16 JerzeyGrrl March 1, 2010 at 8:46 pm

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.

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17 Andrea March 1, 2010 at 9:44 pm

I need to move to SF so I can take advantage of you.

I mean…

Um…

That's what she said?

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18 Christina Harper March 1, 2010 at 11:19 pm

5 stars for inappropriate blog posts and fun times at Intel HQ!

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19 katelin March 1, 2010 at 11:22 pm

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.

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20 pyrenze March 1, 2010 at 6:01 pm

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.

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21 Phil March 2, 2010 at 1:06 am

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".

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22 Miss Spoken March 1, 2010 at 7:10 pm

The only email invites I get involve sending my life savings to some offshore account in Rawanda.

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23 Caroline in the City March 2, 2010 at 2:46 am

What does your vagina have that mine doesn't have? I need free stuff. Other than bar food and movie tickets.

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24 AlexMac March 1, 2010 at 8:22 pm

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…

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25 Ed Adams March 2, 2010 at 3:37 am

I never get offers for shit like that.

Jealous.

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26 Jen March 1, 2010 at 10:00 pm

So cool! Sounds like a lot of fun. Enjoy all your crazy invitations. :-)

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27 Jamie March 2, 2010 at 6:21 am

I mean, at some point, we should make some fucking fuck fuck coffee cake.

And then have it with tea. The glory hole tea.

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28 sasha March 2, 2010 at 7:34 am

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.

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29 Mariam March 2, 2010 at 5:21 am

Just discovered your blog today, and I must say that I find you wildly and inappropriately awesome. That is all. Carry on… being awesome.

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30 Kyla Roma March 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Wild! This stuff just doesn't exist in Canada, you're so lucky to be able to take advantage of these invites!!

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31 Graygrrrl March 2, 2010 at 11:25 pm

My vagina and I are totally jealous. The last thing we got invited to was a friends house to watch "Wanted".

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32 Stephen March 2, 2010 at 6:33 pm

LOL. sounds like you're starting to be famous for being famous.

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33 Stephen March 2, 2010 at 6:33 pm

LOL. sounds like you're starting to be famous for being famous.

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34 Lemon Gloria March 3, 2010 at 2:15 am

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.

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35 Courtney March 3, 2010 at 3:17 am

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.

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36 Marian Schembari March 3, 2010 at 3:12 pm

Congrats girl, you've officially made it big! Who says blogging doesn't pay?

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37 #1Nana March 4, 2010 at 6:24 am

You're invited to my house any time…would cinnamon rolls be okay with the tea?

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38 JenRem March 6, 2010 at 3:44 pm

Next time you get a cool invite, can I come? I'm so jealous of your awesomeness. I mean like seriously, how cool!

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