Kim recently completed her Masters degree and is now working in Marketing Communications. She also writes and blogs. This post on Nashville was a favorite.

OneChicklette: Your favorite qualities in a love interest

@kimlw: a great sense of humor, total honesty, old-fashioned manners, a killer smile, good hair

OneChicklette: Your chief characteristic (one word)

@kimlw: ambitious

OneChicklette: What you appreciate most in your friends

@kimlw: their listening ears & constant support!

OneChicklette: Your idea of happiness

@kimlw: A few scenarios come to mind: drinking whiskey, eating a cheeseburger and dancing at a rock show, doing the crossword in a coffee shop on a sunday morning, and wandering around a city i’ve never been to.

OneChicklette: Your idea of misery

@kimlw: Doing math. While sitting in the snow. 

OneChicklette: Your favorite fictional character

@kimlw: Jordan Catalano, hands down.

OneChicklette: Your favorite thing to eat, and also to drink

@kimlw: to eat: cheese danish. To drink: chai latte.

OneChicklette: Five tangible things you can’t live without

@kimlw: family, coffee, music, the internet…and pizza? no, a place to live. that’s more important than pizza. 

OneChicklette: What’s the number one item on your bucket list? (question via @SaraLang)

@kimlw: write and publish a book.

OneChicklette: Who do you know via social media that you’re dying to meet in real life?  (this question came via @floridagirlindc)

@kimlw: a bunch of people! the first ones that come to mind are @howveryheather, @SaraLang, @scottmuska, @GraylinSample, @PaigeCoop, @NYC10021, @tammy, and of course, @1Chicklette!

@OneChicklette: What is your most under appreciated tweet? (this question came via @MikeKelton)

@kimlw: I thought “lady in the streets, freak in the tweets” was pretty clever.

OneChicklette: A question I should ask the next participant

@kimlw: Describe the best trip you’ve ever taken.

OneChicklette: Random shout out 

@kimlw: Right now, i’m all about this dating site called coffee meets bagel. Get into it!

I was young and fresh. Sort of cute maybe, but not cosmopolitan. My Scranton roots showed. I lived in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood where my rent was $950 per month and my entry-level salary was $25,000 per year. I was poor but somehow unconcerned, a combination of parental subsidies and youthful bluster-slash-cluelessness.

“It will all work out,” I figured each time I put down my credit card for Chinese food, pints of Guinness or blonde highlights.

I took a second job working part-time at the Broadway location of Equinox checking IDs for the cheaper membership as well as the extra money. Once I checked in Michael J. Fox, but didn’t realize until he had proceeded through the turnstile. It was only when his member photo popped up on my computer monitor, that I said “Oh” aloud, recognizing him. He was so little in person.

I used the little bit of Equinox cash I earned to purchase personal training sessions. Of course.

Observe all of the 90s awesomeness happening in this pic

But working at Equinox did lead me to make a friend, Lara, who was working as a personal trainer before applying to grad school. She is what made this whole encounter happen. Lara, you see, was cool and sophisticated and also, fortunately, sweet. We went to the same university, but didn’t know each other. In spite of our coolness disparity, when we actually met our alma mater somehow made me pre-qualified for some level of friendship. I knew you’d be useful someday, Cornell.

One of Lara’s friends, another personal trainer, was dating a Big Name Celebrity. He was a famous actor then, and he’s in the super-famous realm now. I’m not naming him here because while they were dating, this actor went off and married someone else. Someone he is still married to.

Anyway. It was through this other girl and her actor boyfriend that Lara and I had access to some primo nightlife. The spot of the moment was Morgans at the hotel of the same name. When we made our plans to go, I was excited but nervous.

My nerves dissipated once the burly doorman admitted Lara and me to the stairs leading to the subterranean lounge. We were in.

The dim room was seemingly lit primarily via a long bartender-less bar that glowed from within and divided the space diagonally. It was like nothing I had ever seen.

I wish I could remember what drink I ordered. My guess is that it was a glass of super sweet Riesling or something like a Screwdriver. Mixology wasn’t a ‘thing’ yet. Nor were phones with cameras so I don’t have photo proof of what happened next.

George Clooney walked in.

Lara and I had been promised excitement of the celebrity variety and we were not disappointed. Over time, others arrived including Jason Patric and David Spade. There were probably others, but Morgans was aiding and abetting celebrity privacy by keeping the space seriously dark.

George was friendly. We spoke a little about the movie he was in NYC to film, The Peacemaker. Lara and I did a shot with him. He circulated in the small room more than you might expect for a star of his caliber. Maybe it was just the times.

Once the shock wore off, I remembered that I had told my friend Sari that I would call her if Morgans were “good” and she should join us. Deciding that this definitely qualified as good, I pulled out my cell phone to dial Sari, but realized I didn’t get service underground.

Circa 1995

Instead of going above ground to call and running the risk of not being let back in, I asked for a quarter to use the pay phone.

David Spade gave me a quarter. George told him to. I should have been flummoxed, or at least excited, but by this point in the night, nothing phased me.

Ring…Ring…Ring…

Sari didn’t answer so I hung up before the answering machine did. David Spade’s quarter rolled out.

Returning to the lounge, I spotted George but not David.

“Where’s Spade*? I have his quarter,” I said.

As soon as the words escaped my mouth, I felt incredibly stupid. I might even have covered my mouth with my hand.

“Jen, I’ve seen his movies. Give him his quarter back.”

He could easily have left goofy, gawky me feeling dumb. But he didn’t. He called me by name. For one wonderful moment, I was in on George Clooney’s joke.

*I called him Spade because George did. Ballsy, eh?

Semi-related:

And this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-Je_kkXIo

This highlight reel features Def Leppard – Love Bites, naturally

In lieu of more Eric+Sookie, I’ll take more Pam.

PS Will we ever see Eric in basketball shorts again?

I’m light on pictures from Falmouth because our chief objective upon arrival was FOOD. But Falmouth did welcome us with a rainbow.

Osteria La Civetta filled the bill. We sat at the bar and enjoyed Northeastern Italian food in bustling restaurant. It was clearly a local favorite.

Then it was time to go home. What a great day!

Reblogged from Essa On Everything:

We spotted a big house and walked toward it. From afar, it looked like a beautiful mansion. Up close, it reminded me more of Grey Gardens.

We walked onto the dock in front of the house.

Our next stop was Rite-Aid.

Yeah. I saw the missing board. I acknowledged it. I stepped in the gap anyway.

Ouch. Who wants to see my three bruises?

Part Three was less eventful, more delicious. Promise.

OneChicklette: Your favorite qualities in a love interest

@TinaCervasio: he learns to see all my imperfections, and loves them as wholeheartedly as he loves me.

OneChicklette: Your chief characteristic (one word)

@TinaCervasio: Resilience

OneChicklette: What you appreciate most in your friends

@TinaCervasio: My true friends can pick up exactly where we left off. With my work schedule and my friends and their schedules, kids & families, it’s hard to spend the time we want together. But if we can pick up where we left off with 6 months, sometimes a year in between the last time we saw each other, I truly appreciate that!

OneChicklette: Your idea of happiness

@TinaCervasio: A game winning shot! (by a Knicks player, of course)

OneChicklette: Your idea of misery

@TinaCervasio: interviewing the dude who hit the game winner against the Knicks

OneChicklette: Your favorite fictional character

@TinaCervasio: Vice President Selina Meyer (“Veep” cracks me up)

@OneChicklette: Your favorite thing to eat, and also to drink

@TinaCervasio: Cheese. Wine. Enough said.

OneChicklette: Five tangible things you can’t live without

@TinaCervasio: large designer purses (to carry water bottles, shoes & a full TV makeup bag all at once), my iPhone, fake eyelashes, keratin hair treatments, my God’s Promises book

OneChicklette: What’s the number one item on your bucket list? (question via @SaraLang)

@TinaCervasio: Live in Italy for one solid year.

@OneChicklette: Who do you know via social media that you’re dying to meet in real life?  (this question came via @floridagirlindc)

@TinaCervasio: The DKF Boys: @TheeJewFro @iDaleeeO and their buddy, Pro Golfer: @NickSutter.

Go to their website, follow them on social media and you will understand!

Long story how I found these guys, or how they found me, but I’m currently planning a trip with @Golf4Her_LLC & @AnitaMarks to meet up with them in Florida for a round of golf or 2 or 3. So then I WILL meet them!

@OneChicklette: What is your most under appreciated tweet? (this question came via @MikeKelton)

@TinaCervasio: When I tweet about Knicks injuries.  I understand fans are frustrated, but sometimes they take it out on me. With very bad language. Because, of course, I’ve never said a bad word in my life.

OneChicklette: A question I should ask the next participant

@TinaCervasio: What are you wearing as you answer these questions?

OneChicklette: Random shout out (can be a person, your business, a web site, a favorite product or brand…anything)

@TinaCervasio: @misshope because she introduced us! And that’s her THANG! No one does it better. She’s the GAWDESS of connecting people.

OneChicklette: She really is! Thanks for linking us up, Melissa.

I confess: I cynically thought the nude employee photos would consist of one male boss, and twenty or thirty stunningly beautiful women. Mea Culpa.

While Business Insider initially ran the original images – which is to say fully nude S&W employees – they switched to blurred photos like the one below after receiving complaints. The firm’s web site made no such compromise.

Property of Sagmeister & Walsh / Mario de Armas

While I was not offended, I also won’t be applying for a job there. I liked the photos quite a lot once my [silly] shock wore off.

Would you work there? Could you?

More backstory here.

The weather cooperated Saturday so we took a day trip to Cape Cod. I had never been!

We made the most of the beautiful day, checking out three towns.

First: Sandwich

We browsed at the Sandwich Artisans show at the public library.

I bought myself a pair of earrings from Mei Mei of Lexington.

Later we had lunch at the Brown Jug, also in Sandwich, on their charming patio.

Have you been to Sandwich? If so, what did you think?

Next: Hyannis

That said, I would love it if you’d Like my new Facebook page and follow me on Twitter.

Hope you have a terrific weekend with whoever or whatever makes you feel happy!