Eager readers line up to buy Michelle's most recent book - "My So-Called Freelance Life."

A belated thanks to all of you who came out for the Fall Open House - what a great time we had!  Michelle Goodman brought an excellent addition to our seasonal open house, reading excerpts and answering questions about her book - “My So-Called Freelance Life.” A big crowd of budding freelancers came to soak up the event and to hear some of her helpful hints in person.  Congratulations to Michelle on another great book for the freelancing world!

Another big thanks goes out to Michelle Bates, our fall artist on display!  Come by the office anytime to take a look at two of Michelle’s gorgeous photo series.  They are providing a great new atmosphere in the space and we are feeling very lucky to have such great work up on the walls.

Kelly shows ON some love.

I’m wishing I had taken more photos throughout the evening, but I was much too busy having a great time!  If anyone else has photos from the evening, feel free to add them to the Office Nomads Flickr pool for us - we’d be glad to see more shots from the great night!

PS -Keep your calendar’s free on Tuesday, January 13 for the ON Winter Open House, which will be combined with the neighborhood Seattle Greendrinks!  That’s right, folks.  We’re in the pre-planning stages for right now, but Pizza Fusion and Sustainable Capitol Hill are teaming with Office Nomads to present a Greendrinks event for the Capitol Hill neighborhood.  Should be excellent fun, so save the date now!

If you’ve spent any time at Office Nomads since March, or if you’ve kept an eye on our calendar of events,  you’ve probably heard of Imagine Capitol Hill. Not only has Susan been hosting planning meetings for this weekend’s street fair at ON, she’s been one of the major planners of it. The street fair, which organizers hope will inspire participants to imagine what Capitol Hill could be like as a more sustainable community, promises to be a really great time.  I don’t know all the details, but according to the Sustainable Capitol Hill site, it’ll include an outdoor street café with free tea & coffee, sustainable cooking demonstrations and a bike repair clinic (which I desperately need to attend).

But wait, there’s more. Office Nomads will also have a booth there. Susan and Jacob will spend the day extolling the virtues of having a commute-free workspace in the neighborhood. They’ll have couches out for folks who feel the need to take a load off or want to chat with their neighbors (and maybe even get some work done on a Sunday, if they want), displays about the space and, most fun of all, an interactive art project.

The art project will ask folks to put their thinking caps on and imagine (get it?) what they would do with all the time they’d save by not commuting to work by working at a coworking office in their neighborhood. An array of colorful post-its will, I’m sure, have some pretty awesome ideas. We’ll report on the best next week.

So if you’re in the ‘hood, drop by Imagine Capitol Hill this Sunday between 11 am and 4 pm and make sure to say hi to Jacob and Susan!