Oh man are you going to be excited slash weirded out when you see how those two topics come together!

PART ONE:

Last Thursday I joined my friend Ben at the co-working space where he spends his days. Ben runs his own company and, like many entrepreneurial 2.0 types, realized that he needed a place to focus on his to-dos and and bring his new clients that’s outside his home (albeit that a lovely house in Echo Park). And so Ben joined Hub LA, a intimidatingly cool co-working space that sits across the street from an unpronounceable gourmet sausage restaurant and this coffee place that doesn’t offer sugar in the arts district of downtown LA. Naturally I am love with this entire situation despite the fact that I use 1/2 a cup of CoffeeMate vanilla creamer in my coffee and hate saying things I don’t know how to say.

See, I too have been trying to find a place to work where I can’t eat an entire bag of pita chips slash container of hummus or re-try on all my clothes to make new outfits options all day long. It’s not that my lovely one bedroom in Beverly Adjacent isn’t big enough to accommodate my Mac Air and post-it note screenplay outline. It’s that I have no will power to work in a space where my DVR also exists.

And so I took Ben up on his offer to spend the day at Hub LA (no, I didn’t buy new shoes specifically to wear to this mecca of all that is hip in the world, I bought new shoes that happened to work with an outfit that I wore to this mecca of all that his hip in the world – I swear!).

PART TWO:

One month ago I got an e-mail from a representative with Chantelle Lingerie, this French company with more than 150 years of experience in making women look good in their underwear. The Chantelle rep wondered if we could find a way to incorporate their products into a blog post. I don’t pursue promotional writing unless it already relates to an idea I’m interested in exploring, but in this case the stars aligned. I truly have been curious about an issue involving lady unders for some time now, and so I decided to take the Chantelle people up on their offer to see, once and for all, if what I’ve read on five dozen Cosmo magazine covers is true: do you really feel sexier and more confident all day long if you’re wearing hot but wearable lingerie?! And does this whole charade just apply to romantic dinners out with your beau or would it, say, work if you were just sitting at a funkily shaped cafeteria table in a downtown loft space all day long…

I just so happened to get my Chantelle bra and unders sets (no grown woman says panties, only men) the day before my co-working test drive, and so it seemed only logical to combine the two. My rationale: if those brilliantly constructed black lace family jewel covers can make me feel great while I’m killing myself through the first draft of a feature script in a florescent lit room, they can do anything.

PART THREE:

You better believe I felt great wearing those sexy underwear to that co-working space (these ones, to be specific)! First of all, they couldn’t be more comfortable – like barely there comfort but in a silk/lace combo that should be itchy but felt like nothing at all. Secondly, the bra has this mini bit of push-up padding that feels like a bean bag – delightful against the girls. And finally, I had this ridiculous little secret under my boyfriend jeans and graphic t-shirt all day long. On several occasions I laughed, out loud, to myself. And I am happy to report that this delight, combined with the incredible quiet of the work space and totally free seltzer water they serve, resulted in my writing 25 pages of the script. If that isn’t a win, win, win, win, I don’t know what is.

So thanks go out to Ben, Hub LA, Chantelle Lingerie and FinalDraft8 for what will probably be my first and last promotional post if any other companies are reading right now…