I've been toying with the idea of event planning for quite some time. The excitement elicited in me by the prospect of throwing a casual dinner party or even planning a big 25th birthday bash was often un-containable....Said excitement usually resulted in many a shift in priorities as a grad student, an employee for "The Man" and a pseudo event planner.... pseudo event planner priorities shining above the rest shamelessly...

I found that I could scour the net for hours, obsessively identifying...