the end

I can't believe the day has come. May last day at Ogilvy. Although I'm super excited to go home and get back to school I will be sad to leave here. It kinda sucks not to be able to see the final results of a lot of the things that I worked on here. Especially Crystal Light. I've learned an incredible amount through this experience and I only hope that translates into newer and better work. I'm eager to get back to school and work my ass off to get a book that I'm actually proud of.

Monday I made the mistake of thinking that I would actually get out of work at a normal hour. Haha. I'm not even sure what I worked on at this point. I think we needed to come up with different transitions for parts of the Crystal Light storyboards and I had to redraw some frames. It ended up being another late night and I didn't get home until after 1am.

Tuesday was much more laid back for once. I just had to make a few copy changes to my Shreddies files and kinda hung out for the most part. Wed. I felt really bad because everyone was freaking out over the workload that they had. I kept offering to help people out but it wasn't really stuff that I could help with. The only thing that I ended up doing was laying out the two remaining print ads for Winners and got them ready to be sent off to the studio. Later in the day I got brought in to help work on Carnation. So we ended up staying late brainstorming again until 11. I guess it was worth it because Janet liked most of our ideas. She liked more than she killed and today we have a meeting with media planners for that.

Yesterday was pretty relaxed too and I actually left work at 5. I planned on going to the Paperchase that claimed that it was like 3 blocks from my office building on google maps but ended up walking around for 45 minutes in the 10 degree weather before I gave up and sought shelter. It was painfully cold to be outside for that long. I ended up going to the mall and picked up nice sketchbooks and some thank you cards for Cara, Bee and Mike. I'm planning on letterpressing some stuff for Nancy and sending her a UD thing or two as a thank you. After my shopping fiasco I had to head back down near the office and I met my aunt to see Dirty Dancing on the Canadian version of Broadway. It wasn't totally what I expected but still fun to watch. Whoever did the casting did an awesome job at getting people that look like actors in the movie.

last monday

This morning started off pretty interesting. I got to the subway and realized that my monthly TCC card had expired because its now February. I was short 10 cents to buy a token and had to run down the street to the nearest bank and back to the station and then the teller said they were out of tokens and let me through for free. Oy. Somehow I still made it to work on time.

The interestingness continued when I got to work and Mike was like the Winners layouts are due TODAY. At 12. He only found out on Sun. from Nancy that they were due to the client so we scrambled to get that done for the first few hours of work. Nancy really liked one of my designs, too bad the client didn't. :( They basically turned the whole thing into a design monstrosity. Maybe I'll post my layouts once it goes to print. I also got stuck shrinking down those Shreddies files to under 1MB and then the guy asked me to make the two pdfs the exact same file size. Not exactly sure how one does that when the pdfs are made of dozens of different files. That would require a lot of math and time. So I'm not sure what's gong on with that.

The rest of today I spent catching up on my Super Bowl commercials. Canadian Super Bowl commercials are light-years away from American commercials. In a bad way. A very bad way. I went to a Super Bowl party with Cara yesterday, ate lots of food, and watched the game which got pretty interesting near the end.

super sunday

So Thirtsy Thursday at work wasn't too eventful for us because we had to get a lot together for the Crystal Light client meeting the next morning. We just grabbed a couple of beers and went back to work. I finished up putting together the first part of the downloadable Shreddies swag stuff I was working on and sent that off to Ivan for approval. I also worked on some more Winners designs and helped with the story boards some. They were pretty nervous about them because they were pretty crazy and included mermaids and unicorns which actually turned out to be the client's favorite part. Go figure. So the meeting went really well.

The rest of Friday was pretty laid back for a change and I didn't get assigned any work for the weekend! I spent most of Fri. trying to shrink down the Shreddies pdfs that I made so that they could go online. I really don't know why the interactive part of the agency was making me attempt to do that when they would know better than anyone else how to make things the best quality at the smallest file size. My files were 3MB and they were demanding that they be under 1MB which just wasn't happening so finally the account person persauded someone in interactive to deal with it.

I left work probably the earliest ever a little ater 5. Cara took me to the Distillery district to walk around. It kinda reminded me of Delaware with all the red brick. Toronto isn't a very old city so this area was old by their standards. After that we did some shopping and then headed to Globe for our Winterlicious dinner. The city has two events each year set up called Winterlicious and Summerlicious where the higher end restaurants offer preset 3 course meals for $35. Kinda like Restaurant Week in NYC. I had vegetable lasagna very interesting and delicious! Our meals ended up being welllll over $35 with all the booze that we ordered but well worth it for a treat. Yesterday was pretty uneventful except my cousin came over for our belated birthday (his is the day after mine) Indian feast. yum.