When you got over the sweat running down your brow and pushed hard enough to make your way to the truffle oil-infused cheese being served in the other room, you might have found yourself enjoying Supper Club New York, imported from London, which launched last night at the National Arts Club, a building whose age and austerity were used as the excuse for zero air movement.

Allegedly stuffed with 300 media and social elite, the OW! Onorato Wixom-thrown event drew people we'd expect to see there, like Out's Aaron Hicklin, and those we wouldn't, like the girl who tried designing handbags before opting to spend the project's start-up money traveling through Germany and Argentina. As it turned out, she was just someone's plus-one.

Inside, a Ted – or Ned, or Nate maybe – introduced himself as a friend of Tamsin's from their days of partying in London. "I've never lived there, but I've gone there so many times to party. … Partying there is awesome." Ted/Ned/Nate explained that he's a software nerd who, appropriately, runs a software company that analyzes mobile phone data, and used words like "GPS" and "hedge fund guys" to explain himself, as in, "I'm the social chair of the hedge fund guys." Uh huh. The vodka started kicking in as he explained that spending five years on the beach in Barcelona is a good way to blow your entire savings. How can one not agree?

A skinny twig of a girl who tugged at our sweater's hemline from her seat on an ornate sofa was probably all of 17 or 18 years, though her brittle hair and teeth hinted she might be closer to her end than she let on. Asked what she did, she gleefully replied, "Nothing! I party. I just go to parties!" She told our plus-one that she was the daughter of somebody famous. Ew.

We turned around and were delighted to find an excuse to walk away in a radiant Katrina Szish, formerly of Us Weekly and now of InStyle, with her charming husband who challenged his wife for the night's "Best Smile" superlative.

While Heatherette's Richie Rich made the rounds telling people he loved them, too, Radar's Neel Shah could be seen making his way to the table of food. We shook his hand, figuring it was better to take one for the team and absorb some of the germs that might've made their way to the candied walnut dish. At least he's laughing about it.

And best of all, the evening's event marked the return of Joey Jalleo, the PR and events maestro who disappeared for the summer after leaving Nadine Johnson's firm. This was his first event since, and "I don't know what I'm going to do after," he told us. Then somebody began shouting in his earpiece again, and he was off.

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