The Top Floor Flat

Tomorrow evening I’m going to the Colby ‘Alum in the City’ event for London. This has the potential to be wonderful or wonderfully awkward. This is the first official Alum event I will have attended (fair enough as I only graduated four months ago) and I know at least one other person from my graduating class will be there. I’m going to approach this as a networking event – a chance to find people with whom I have something common who live in London.

As far as networking events go, I have to say, I’ve been doing quite well. Last Friday I went to the Daily Candy book launch party for the UK publication of their book Fictionary (published in the States as The Lexicon) and I swear, I couldn’t have found a better networking event if I had tried. Of course, the massive quantities of free champagne and chocolate made it especially easy to strike up a conversation with a stranger, and thank goodness I did. I had gone alone to the event (and felt woefully unfashionable with all the London fashionistas at the event) but the people I met were just wonderful and, incredibly, I met someone who had gone to the same school as I had in Palo Alto (Castilleja). Although she had only been there for two years while I had been there for seven, it was an incredible coincidence and just goes to show what a small world it really is.

I’m not going to be remotely worried about my unofficial reunion of sorts with Colby people tomorrow. I’m sure I could work myself up into a Ronnie and Michelle style lather over what to wear and what to say and how to talk up my last four months. But I know that there’s not much that could beat the life I’m living now and I’m just excited to have some social interactions that don’t involve social networking. Hail Colby, Hail.