That Nerdy Chick Goes All #Hollywood

Wow. That's kinda all I have to say about that. What a little adventure. It started off around quarter to 8, when I parked my car in Hollywood. I have 5 ... not 1 ... not 2 ... but 5 outstanding parking tickets. See, in the last year, I've been bartering social media to live. For reals, haven't had more than $10 to my name for a year (read the About Us for the DL on that shiznat) ... and so, I park on Orange St. and I just chilled in my car for a minute to answer an email. Low and behold, this cop comes up with a flashlight and is scoping my license plate. I was all ... oh fuck, I am SCRREEEWWEEDDD!! Hello, jail time Jen! See, when you get to 5 tickets, I'm pretty sure they issue a bench warrant. Fortunately for me though, I have out of state plates, a lot of lawyer friends, and I'm pretty good at breaking situations down to figure out how to get out of 'em. So, I sat there for a second in my car and just thought, alrite - now I'm screwed. This was a nice run ... she signals me to put the window down, which of course I do ... and then tells me that I can't park here without a permit, to please be on my way. I said, not a problem officer - she never ran my plate. I didn't get arrested. #SCORE!!!!!!! I then parked by my old apartment, where I knew was permit free and hustled on over to my meeting. 

I then got to chillax with @DanaBrunetti this evening, and what a rad existence. For reals ... I got invited to this thing at the Roosevelt ... cue 4sq checkin: 

It turned out to not only be a thing ... but a very LA thing ...  

I'm not a very LA chick anymore. But I sat there in the lobby waiting for my meeting, and dude - totally bumped into @derekhousman and @hotrodrodda who I haven't seen since my homeless ass used to sit at Cafe Solar all day. HA! Dude, the best free wifi in LA ... and free water. Total awesome sauce ... 

Dana with the most popular Halloween costume this year. HAHAHA!! LOVE me some Bed Intruder!!! Either way, just by sitting there, so many people came up to me and started networking. It was so weird - a few of them seemed fairly legit too. I told this woman the name of my website, and she asked me if I had heard of this specific award show ... I told her I had, and that it honestly sucked ... but here were the reasons why ... constructive suckage FTW! She seemed pretty happy to hear something so frank, gave me her card. Liked that lady ... don't know why, good vibe. Totally following up. 

But yeah, even BEFORE the meeting began, I could have just called it a night - but I don't think I could have grasped what I was in for. 

I then see @DanaBrunetti, super cutie patootie pants. He introduces me to his agent .... then we get whisked away to this back area. Like back ... like way back ... like I have been in a lot of the little enclaves at the Roosevelt, but I had honestly no idea that this part existed. 

Dude, that little patio-ish area was so cool. The people that were there ... wow, dude it was epic. Like epic epic. Like so epic that I am keeping my damn mouth shut. That's the thing with what I do ... this honestly happens to me a lot. I show up for life every day - and life just gives me a lot of cool shit to play with. It's pretty bitchin. I'm just a crazy nerdy chick with nothing to lose, and a lot of connections in social media - yet the IRL component of it is just spectacular. Dude, I knew Dana from twitter, yet hanging out was like pppffftt! nuttin honey! 

I got to hear a lot about the back story to the Social Network, which as Dana puts it was like porn to me. For reals ... its still no joke, out of the 3,000 something posts I've done in the last year, reviewing The Social Network was still my favorite. It's so astounding to me how much of the industry has changed, and how much social media has just become EVERYTHING. Like EVERRYYTHIINNGG!! And dude, even they get it. It's total insane balls. If you ever wondered, right now is just the BEST BEST BEST time to be alive. Hands down. Go, get off your ass, and live the life you've ever dreamt about living. Because its here ... like right right here, and its just waiting for you to come and get it. So ... GOOO!! =) =) =) 

And now my nerdy self is already back to drinking crap Keystone Light beer, and sitting in @tgumb's Sprit Hood. 

Peace out home slices!!!!! xoxo 

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Nada Surf- Popular

BAHHHHH!!!! What a weeekkkkk!!! Heard back from the studio big wiggie today. Some shiznat is goin down over yonder, so he said he wants to finish getting through our script. Meaning, he's reading it. Which is just awesome sauce. Dude, its so funny hearing what this el duderino is telling me ... and then googling it, and going - oh, that's right! lol ... the truth is better than fiction. You just can't make this shit up!!! It's all RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT here. With the film, this brand as a whole, dude - I'm skyping with Playboy tomorrow. Are you fucking kidding me?!

I'm not interested in the politics of Hollywood. Very honestly not interested in dealing with the bullshit. I'm just doing my thing. This is part of it. I felt it, I felt it before there was even a damn script. I just assumed it would be how I can have access to all these people without having a dollar to my name. Had no idea it would like be a way bigger deal. I just go with the flow, and I have a freakish ability of being able to just feel EVERYTHING. Down to, a friend of mine from the LA Galaxy, posting on my Facebook wall not 30 seconds before I started thinking about him. And dude, I haven't talked to him in like a year. So weird.

Just so much of life is cause and effect. I'm just learning so much more about this process. But I find it so fascinating. Every day I am just having more and more fun which so many people are just attracted to. Its kinda freaky. Documenting this entire journey has made these like little check points that I can refer back to, remembering my state of consciousness, and then being able to draw specific lines to it. So fucking nuts. I would be doing everything that I am doing if not a single person was reading us. But the fact that so many people do means it has to succeed that much more.

I will tell you this, when I get my first check from the flick, there are going to be some serious changes on TNTML. I want to create a community of lifecasters. Only a handful. I want to do like MTV's True Life for the nerds of the web. I haven't processed exactly how I want it done yet - but I am FASSCCINNATTEDDDD by this notion of lifecasting. I'm a lifecaster, I know it works - I just have to find enough people willing, and free enough in their own skin to test an experiment like that out. There's something magical there. I know it ... just have to process it all.

Either way, big week coming up ... stayyy tunneeddd!!

#NerdsUnite



#Vlog: That Nerdy Chick

SOOOO!!! I was just sitting here, feeling a little anxious, well more like excited mixed with just oh holy fuck what am I getting myself into ... and my sock monkey pajamas convinced me that I needed to just make a video and talk about it. Literally ... the little monkeys on my PJs started talking and were all, yo! Jen of the Jungle, whyz notz make a vlog. How can one ever ignore the monkeys on their PJs when they start talking to you, sooooo here ya go. Now, I have made a video chronicling the thoughts in my brain. Yep, all 2 of them.

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Don't Panic - Coldplay

OHHHMYYYYGAAATOOSS!!!!

What a night. First off, I am prefacing this by saying I have had 3 shots of patron, and three beers ... and its 3am LA time. Yeah, this is going to be fun ... but very honest.

I believe in what I do. Furthermore, I believe in that ANYYYONNNEEEE on this planet can do it, but not many people are willing to step up to their own plate.

Life is fucking awesome, but you have to let it be - life is reflective. I looovvveeeeeeee me some life, but because for the first time in 25 almost 26 years, I loovvvveee me some Jen. Its pretty through and through, and not ego based - just very matter of fact, that if this WASNT the trend, I would still be acting upon it, and creating whatever it is that creates it, and sort of acting upon that. I dig what I do because I believe in it. Period. End of sentence. Dude, I'm drunk as a skunk, but 1. I didnt drive tonight and 2. tonight only further proved that I get this shit more than I can imagine; its just a matter of until you have that level of "success" whatever that means to you, people will always think you're crazy. DUDE!! I still think I'm potentially crazy. But hearing "Oh I read your site" and "congrats, do you know what this means?" literally means the WORLLLDDDDD to me. No, I honestly don't get it. I got offered yet ANOTHER web show today, like literally - wasn't even on my own cell phone since I still have to file that stupid insurance claim ... but yeah, got offered ANOTHER show tonight, and I'm still so laissez-faire about the entire thing. It's all pretty ... meh!

I believe in the medium. Bottom line, you can tell a story through social media. Whether or not the rest of the world gets it, is irrelevant. You all are fucking reading this. THOUUSSANNNDDSSS of you a day - yet a year ago, I was still in this rechid relationship, watching all of this happen. We're so crazy, stupid new, I'm still learning to process it. But I know my shit. Like I KNOOOOOWWWWWWWWW my shit - so the rest is just rock and roll. It's buckle up, take a deep breath, and relish in the fact that I STILL have nothing to lose. The crowd I am currently consulting for could say, okay fuck off - and I'd STILL be gravy - but all because of you folk. I proved myself because of this site. So, when I say thank you ... I say THANNNKKKKK YOUUU!!! You made my life, and my one day children's life - and my grand-kids life.

Right now, we are at GROUND ZERROOOO for business. It is the technology revolution. Get off your ass, and do something about it. Because if you don't, people like me will - and I'm already like set, for ever and ever ... so by you not "getting it" I will take that much more. And like, thats not fun. And um yeah.

Bottom Line: Love love LOVEEEE you all! Thanks so much for reading this site, and if you EVER have feedback, I want to hear it. Send me a tweet @JenFriel, or drop me an email: JenFriel@talknerdytomelover.com - I read every bit of anything, and if it sucks, I will tell you - haha, but chances are it'll be awesome, because again, life is reflective. From the bottom of my HEART THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! I'm drunker than a skunk in dunkin donuts, ewe, thats kinda gross - but yeah, I believe in this community, believe in where this is all going - and I love it. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! =) Thank you all.

Love & light. Namaste.

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: New Radicals- Mother we just cant get enough

SOOOO!!! I just had a date. And it was pretty bitchin. I just dont get it man. This was the first date in a suppperrrrr long time that had absolutely nothing to do with work. Literally, as a lifecaster I am just kinda getting into this whole boundary thing, because frankly, there are no boundaries with what I do. I def signed a deal with the devil, and I'm totally kosher for that passover ... but this was just the first date in like forever that I had no desire to work with this guy, no desire to promote anything, was just insanely and absurdly attracted to him - asked him out on Twitter, and the rest was kinda history. It was nice.

Definitely butterflies. Like crazy butterflies. Not that the other guys I've dated in about the last year weren't super cool for school, but this was just very honest and easy. OMG I was suchhhhh a nerd. Like literally, could barely look at him without thinking oh holy fuck, I am doing everything wrong, and I guess that is just what felt so right. I didn't think - I liked him, told him I liked him ... and furthermore acted upon it.

He planned the date, which for me just knocked my nerdy socks off - since I think all day and am in crazy work mode ... shutting it off for an evening is just BITCHIN! Then even had an element of "choose your own adventure." We closed two places down, as apparently the people on this side of the valley are just old, and then came back to the house and watched the stars for an hour. But like, actually watched the stars. Conversation was just easy and effortless, and I feel like this is how dating should be. I'm going in with literally not an expectation in the world, although I'd be lying if I didn't throw in the fact that I have thought about my first name with his last name ... it sounds a bit porn starish, or completely fake. I haven't decided which. (... and btw, there isnt a chick in the world that doesn't do that. we just don't tell you.)

I have no idea what any of this means, and I guess that's whats awesome. Before this little TNTML social experiment, I used to always go out on a date and have an expectation of what everything meant. I can honestly say, I don't care. It was the best evening I have had in a very, very, very, long time - and ended with a good night hug, not even a kiss. (Which sucked btw, because I am a horny, horny, horny bitch. But I'll get over it.)

I guess he just totally caught me off guard. For a nerdy chick that analyzes trends and people all day, thats not an easy task. I can't read him, nor do I even care to try. I just liked his company. I don't know what that means, but I have to follow my own motto ... feels good, doesn't feel good. This feels great. For now. Which is all we have anyway, right? =)

#NerdsUnite

PS. Again, lucky, lucky bastard for catching me when I am COMPLETELY unplugged!! There was no tweeting, no foursquare checking in, as again - I have to file that stupid claim for my phone to get fixed. Stupid Verizon with their stupid new insurance regulations ... BAHHHHHHHH!! *runs into wall*

P.P.S. He totally gave me this super nerdy little flower at the beginning of the date that I'm kinda in love with, not gonna lie. It's the little things!!!!

P.P.P.S. He also doesn't seem intimidated by me, or by my world. He never uttered the words "do you know how many guys would kill to be where I am?" or my personal favorite "so I have this idea that I wanted to tell you about that I think we could work together on ..."

Lick a dick, suck my clit. Yeah. I went there ... get over it.