Day 4

Today wasn't busy until later on in the day but things should be picking up next week. During the morning since I didn't have any assignments I figured I might as well make use of my time and work on somethings for my book and I tried to write some more lines for mine and Garrett's Long's campaign. We're just gonna enter them in the One Club Competition and see what happens.

A bunch of us went for McDonalds for lunch today (yuck) so I met some more people and I'm doing a decent job of remembering names. Everyone's been dealing with finishing up projects from before Christmas so I haven't been involved with too much yet but tomorrow B, Kara and I are getting briefed on Motorola I think we just won the account from BBDO. Everyone seemed kinda confused about it but it looks like it will be really fun to work on. I'm excited. Kara also mentioned that she wants me to help out with some Crystal Light stuff. It would be nice to be here long enough to actually see something go through all the steps from the brief to the finished product.

Today we were talking about how they don't have as much for me to do because most companies cut their singles due to the economy. Blah. It really doesn't make much sense for companies in trouble to cut their spending on advertising because people really don't buy things that aren't right up in their face all the time. You don't want what you don't know about. I'm really curious to see how Dave&Emily are doing at the New York office because Nancy told me that they laid off a lot of people on Tuesday. My Dad seriously jynxed everything. For the past four years all he's been saying is "Gee I really hope the economy doesn't get bad, you might be graduating right into a recession. Things could get pretty bad real fast." But I guess its more like he actually knows what he's talking about.

During lunch I got made fun of for my American accent and my lack of knowledge "aboot" Canadian food chains like Tim Horton's and Swiss Chalet. I was told that I need to try Swiss Chalet sauce although they didn't make it sound too appetizing. I was told it is brown, spicy, gravy water??? For most of the afternoon Mike and I worked on revising the Shedded Wheat advertorial and we're showing them to Nancy for approval. It sounds like she's a Tricia/Ashley because she's not crazy about all the crazy type that Ivan loves. Well at least its aligned-left. I left around quater to 8 today. The latest so far.