Tonight is our biggest event of the year at Washington Life magazine – our annual Young and the Guest list party. This is the soirée where we toast the who’s who of under 40 Washington. It actually gets a lot of press and a ton of people try to crash. We even had a talk in our last meeting on what to do if the Salahis try to come, as they attended last year before all the White House brouhaha. My vote was to let them in with open arms! But my grand idea was shot down.
I’m very excited for tonight’s event because it’s going to be the first time that Craig and Grey meet. So insane. Stacey and I have been blogging for five months now and they still have not met. Also excited that Stacey will be there and many of my wonderful former interns too. Also thankful that this year we were able to borrow dresses from our sponsor Karen Millen, which saved me a nice wad of cash. The only bad news is that I can’t drink a drop because of my marathon Saturday, so I have to rub elbows cold sober. Oh the woes of running.
Of course I shouldn’t complain, for while I post this and the rest of the staff starts the spray tanning, hair straightening, spanks wearing that goes with this kind of event, Kelly Fisher is still stuck in the big bad world of spreadsheets and RSVPs. In fact as I type she is on the phone going “wo, wo, wo calm down. Can I confirm that those are not plus ones? All individuals?” She sounds really scary. She should probably be hired alongside enormous bouncers at prestigious clubs, or be appointed White House social secretary.
You cannot begin to imagine the amount of people who try to fake RSVP to the event. And sadly, the last organizing of any guest list at Washington Life falls on Kelly’s shoulders. It’s a pretty thankless but very very important job and I just want to say THANKS KEL for being the muscle behind the list. As we learned from Crashergate, two wrong guests can get you top billing on CNN as the social disaster of the season. But not with Kelly “the muscle” Fisher at the helm.
As I basically sit on Kelly at work, I was able to covertly snap this pic as she was hard at work in spreadsheet hell.
I’m writing tonight’s post from my desk at work. The hour is 3:32 am, which for a deadline night, isn’t half bad. My colleague Kelly Fisher is currently drawing some banana stationary for me to write my post on, because her brain, like mine, is mush after 12 hours of editing, and all she can do is engage in child-friendly activities.
I hate deadline nights. I feel like an endentured writing servant. And why after three weeks of people being able to send me edits, does the world wait till now to moan and groan about things? Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. Luckily, there are a few things that keep me sane, like food. We luckily got hold of the company card around 8 pm and ordered enough sushi from Banana Leaves to feed an army of sumo wrestlers or really strung out editors. I in fact inhaled two entire dragon rolls and some edamamae for good measure. I mean, why not have my stomach resemble the bottom of the ocean? Banana Leaves is this really amazing Thai/Japanese resto near Dupont Circle conveniently located between a strip club, the former Real World DC house, and a bar where the Russian mob tipples. It’s one of our favorite lunch spots, and to avoid gorging ourselves on pizza tonight, we called in the raw fish splendor of Banana Leaves to take us into the wee hours.
So now it’s just Kelly Fisher, Amie and I trying to put a magazine together without going mentally insane. We already uploaded porn by accident. But we caught it. Fewf! Back to the races.
Washington Life's lovely and talented Associate Editor, Kelly Fisher. Also known as blog guinea pig, muse, and my common law wife. Oh, and that is three people's food. Kelly eats like a bird (ostrich), really!
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