The meeting, at the Bronx apartment of member Michael Roberts, was like a college seminar, except with sangria.

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Grouse about your feckless colleagues who are the grasshopper to your ant while sipping some sangria on your back deck.

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Order up tapas and sangria and similar cuisine (paella with mussels and chorizo, or white-wine-poached red trout) on the outdoor patio.

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Polish off some tapas of croquettes and chorizo, and a reviving sangria (for the passenger, of course) before heading back on the road.

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And the day before her seminar, as time ran out, she posted no less than 70 ads on Craigslist with headlines ranging from "How to be a Rich and Happy Server" to "Complimentary Sangria!"

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