RSS Feedthe time that i was sick and too lazy to post
my apologies for the long absence. i got sick two weeks ago and over the last week i’ve finally started to recover. nothing very exciting going on though so not like much has been missed. lots of work, although i wish i would have taken some legitimate sick time from work so that i could have recovered faster. oh well, i am feeling much better now and counting down until the next agency holiday. less than two weeks until a three day weekend. now that’s something to look forward to.
the big issue of the last couple of weeks has been my complete lack of patience. so as soon as the iPhone OS 3.0 beta was announced i debated if i would do one of two things: 1. wait like a normal consumer until it is released as a final version or 2. sign up as a developer and try the sucker out (let it be noted that i’m also teaching myself to write code at the same time, so this wasn’t a complete play to just try out the software). so yeah, i ended up signing up and downloading the beta. of course the beta doesn’t handle my agency’s exchange security certificates correctly for some reason, so haven’t had access to work email. not the worst thing though. i have no issues waiting until the next beta update until i can fix that issue.
beyond that nothing too exciting going on. softball is getting ready to start in a few weeks and i have officially declared my intent to play again this year. i am horrible at softball but at least i enjoy hanging out with the people on the team. it will make for an enjoyable summer.
that’s all for now. until later.
the time that i jumped into the stock market
despite the fact that my 401k is down like 50% from everything i’ve put into it over the last three years, i decided that now would be a great time to expand my investment knowledge. so i made the decision to make an investment in the stock market, into an actual single company that is, not just a mutual fund. it’s a very small investment but we shall see where it goes. after one day in trading i am still even with my investment. good times. i won’t reveal the company i invested in for the moment as it was sort of a huge gamble (small bet, huge gamble).
i am so sad that the season is coming to an end for big love & united states of tara. such amazing shows and i will be sad to have to wait until another season of both.
as spring break arrives for all the grade school and college aged students, i can’t help but wish everyone received a spring break. i’m thinking i’m going to need to take some of my time off in the near future. i’m almost back up to 4 weeks and need bring it down a bit, particularly my personal and sick days since i have to use those before the end of the year.
okay my attention span has been spent for the evening. until later.
the time that i further increased my nerd factor
now i’m the first to admit that i’m a huge nerd. giant techie. can’t get enough. i mean i’m one of the people who will be going on their third iPhone this summer when the next version will likely come out (yay for iPhone OS 3.0 preview next week!). one thing, however, that i’ve been adopting at a slower than usual pace is twitter. i checked it out quite a while ago although didn’t sign up for an account until last summer. i have been slow to start following people because i initially felt it would just be too overwhelming. i am happy to announce that i’m quickly ramping up the process and am nearing a total of 50 for my following list. granted, that number doesn’t seem large but i have to learn to manage more in incremental steps. i’m slowly developing the skills to keep up with it throughout the day and i think i’ve mastered those skills to the point where i feel comfortable going crazy now. i suppose it’s like google reader, it took my a while but now i’m able to have more than 100 RSS feeds aggregating and not feel lost in the sea of unread posts.
at work i’ve begun working on a digital 101 presentation that i’m beyond excited about. finally getting to spend time working on presentations that center around my passion. not that media planning in general isn’t a passion, because it most certainly is. i love my career in general, but getting to go in and specialize in digital and emerging technology just makes it that much more amazing. it’s my goal to make this a top-notch presentation so that i can wow people within the agency who might not have had the chance to work with me yet (especially after I sullied my name after the whole NYT quote debacle of 2008).
okay time to try sleeping again.
the time that i worked on an award submission
so myself and one of the other media planners at the agency decided to enter the 2009 young lion cannes media competition. same premise of the cannes and run by the same people but it’s supposed to focus more on the younger professionals. of course the timing lined up horrible with the end of a huge campaign i was putting together for work. so here we are, 24 hours until the final entry is do and it’s time to put together the rest of this entry. hopefully the final pieces will come together over the the next 18 or so hours.
i just got hungry all of a sudden and had to convince myself that i shouldn’t make myself brownies and eat them for dinner. i came home and took a nap so i sort of missed out on dinner time. i seriously need a diet and some exercise. i was wearing a shirt today and i could just feel the the fat bursting at the seams. i tried sucking in my gut the whole time trying to hide it. lame. i need to do something about this. i am afraid to get on my wii fit because i really don’t want to know what i am weighing at the moment. time to rededicate myself to getting in shape.
and that is that. back to trying to crank this submission out and hopefully get some rest.
the time that i think i was about done with “the time that”
yeah, i’m starting to become annoyed with the “the time that …” titles. i will spend the next few days working on some new variations.
i have been overly exhausted since i’ve returned from new york. not sure why. between the time shift across time zones and then the switch to daylight saving time, everything just seems off. the one amazing thing is that the temperature since coming back had been amazing up until today. Thursday & Friday were amazing days. I can’t wait until spring is officially here.
okay i don’t have the attention span to finish this at the moment. i am getting too tired to focus. more later.
the time i was in new york and super tired
client trips are one of my favorite things. coming up to purchase, ny is always fun. kinda wish we were staying in the city but sadly only meetings scheduled with the client this time around. either way, for some reason work is ten times more exciting when you’re not doing it at your desk. the one issue i do have is that the one hour time zone difference has really messed up my sense of time. i’m not usually this bad but it has been completely thrown off.
on a completely random note … for some reason the hotel gave me a handicap accessible room. i assume it’s because they didn’t have any other normal rooms with king size beds. it’s just so strange. everything is spaced so far apart and there’s not shower, just a huge stall with no curtain or door. very odd. in addition to that, the pillows that are on the bed are midget pillows. they’re only like a foot long and there are three of them on the bed. i’m not understanding these pillows.
grrr it’s 1am already. time to get some sleep. more later.
the time that travel made me nervous
morning travel makes me nervous. i’m always afraid that either i won’t wake up on time or that i’ll end up taking longer to get ready than i plan and that i might end up missing my flight. it’s not so bad when it’s casual travel but the fact that i have an important meeting and if i were to miss my flight i would be f-ed. seriously, i’m terrified of this every time i have to fly out in the morning. i just took a sleeping pill so that i can try and get some sleep tonight. i don’t need to be tossing and turning all night because i’m worrying all night.
okay joe picked up the hard copy of the presentation we are giving tomorrow and he doesn’t understand any of it. i have to explain media planning to him now and then it’s off to bed for me. more to come later.
