someone has a case of the mondays

Each day that I'm spending here seems to be getting better than the last. Although this morning started off with some frustration it was still a very good day. When we first got into work this morning we heard from our account person on Motorola that they killed the first part of the campaign that we were supposed to work on for their rugged line which of course we all spent the weekend working on. It didn't bother me too much but everyone else was pretty pissed. I felt especially bad for Bee who is really sick and only came into work because we were supposed to present our ideas to Nancy. So Bee left half way through the day. The other half of the campaign is still in the works and we have to show Nancy what we have on Fri.

I had butternut squash soup for lunch. One of my recent food obsessions so that made the day pretty good on its own. After lunch Cara brought Mike and I in on the work she had been doing for Crystal Light before Christmas. I think there are a few senior teams working on it as well because Kraft is making it one of the major products they are trying to push in 2009. They had some pretty great ideas that almost got approved before the break which somehow got squashed. Clients again. The Crystal Light stuff is for TV so that's pretty new and exciting to work on. I had my first real brainstorming session with them after the meeting and then Mike left too because he's pretty sick as well.

Cara and I decided that we were going to stay and work late which actually turned into us going shopping and getting Vietnamese/Thai for dinner (at expense of Ogilvy of course and another free cab ride home). It was really nice to have someone to finally talk to up here. She was telling me about going to Cannes last year among other things. It sounds like a pretty crazy experience. There was talk about us going out this weekend for my birthday so that would be pretty awesome.

So the two things I've learned thus far this week:
1. Clients really do in actual reality truly suck.
2. Enter EVERY competition you can. They are super important.