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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

i believe it’s safe to say that today can be declared one of the worst days of the year so far. from the moment i woke up it has just been one of those days.

today the ceo and several other executives of the most popular premium video content site (rhymes with lulu; not typing the real name because i have discovered they are all over the social media sphere and regularly monitor for mentions of their name).  hands down the best part of the day. i loved the site before but after hearing from the top guys themselves i’m sort of in awe. the company, the people who run it, their vision, everything about the company blows my mind. i wish every media company out there could be filled with the passion and excitement that they are. i’m biased though i suppose as i’m definitely a huge fan of the site and the technology.

after that meeting the stress of work definitely got to me. i’m feeling like a complete failure at work. it’s really eating me up and i really let it get to me this evening. i wish i wouldn’t have but it all just boiled over and and before i knew it i was just feeling like crap. bleh.

and to top off the day for me … as i was leaving work it was pouring, absolutely pouring. of course i totally forgot to bring my umbrella to work today (or so i thought). i stopped into the cvs in the building to pick up an umbrella. nearly $20 later i was well on my way out the door with a trusty umbrella in my hand. i get about 50 feet away from the front door and the rain slows to a very light sprinkle. great. just great. so i fold up the umbrella and go to store it in my bag and what do i find? my umbrella. it was in my bag the whole time. that was like the icing on the day.

that’s all for now. i’m done with this self-pity party and my head hurts too much to put any more thoughts together.

in the 3001:the final odyssey (the third book after 2001), they have these things called thoughtwriters. they hook up to your brain and you can think something and it automatically gets transcribed electronically. it would make things so much easier. particularly writing these entries in a timely manner.

i made the mistake of watching the series finale of six feet under this evening. those last 10 minutes are such a tear-jerker. the sad thing is that i’m keeping it on my tivo so i can watch it again later this week.

i have so much work to get done but i’m so stressed that i was worthless today. i just couldn’t focus and was jumping around all day. it was so much easier to focus when we had separate offices. for some reason i just can’t stay focused in the new surrounding. being a cube rat is so unpleasant that i find it incredibly difficult to stay past 6pm these days. working in an uncomfortable environment just isn’t my thing. not sure why i’m so particular about this.

that’s all for now. i need some sleep. more later.

so yesterday afternoon we went to costco only to end up buying nothing of use. we left with a 2 gallon tub of red vines, 30 packs of gum,  36 mini packs of cookies, 20 packs of freeze-dried fruit, and 36 packs of fruit snacks. oh the dangers of buying in bulk. i have stored them in a drawer i have dubbed the snack drawer. now it just beckons my name. the freeze-dried fruit has become my new obsession. i’m going to run out before i get another chance to go back and restock. what a shame.

for a late lunch/really early dinner yesterday we went to uncle julio’s which is hands down my favorite mexican food restaurant in the city. i find it weird that the national mexican chain is the place i like best in the city but all the “authentic” places in the city just seem to be missing something. what i really miss is tex-mex. i am dying to go back to austin and get some …

speaking of austin, i’m trying to plan a large trip home to dallas and austin in april but i’m finding it a bit more difficult than i originally planned. my goal is to make this trip a week and a half to two weeks but there are a lot of minor details that still need to be worked out.

next week i’m going to ny/purchase to see the client which i am looking forward to. plus i will get to see all the client’s in person as well as members of my team from austin.

that’s all for now.

today was seriously a horrible day at work. my mind was scattered all day, i couldn’t keep focus at all, i had a million things going on between trying to send out feedback letters and handling a million other little things. ugh so much to deal with and by the end of the day i had become beyond frazzled. so happy today is over.

grrrrr. i am frustrated. i need some time on the wii fit and then a nightcap. and then it’s off to bed for me.

oh yeah, did i mention the wii fit? i will get the wii fit tracker up online and running soon. not doing so great 1 week into it.

is this week over yet?

so i ended up working from home today for non-sick reasons but this afternoon i started feeling sick. i’m just hoping that it will pass with some sleep this evening. my stomach feels like a ate junk food all day but for once i actually ate well (frosted mini-wheats for breakfast and peanut butter sandwiches for lunch). so now i’m sitting her hungry, but not wanting to eat.

so yeah, back to yesterday’s entry … so now that my furniture is rearranged i’ve set up stations in the living room to help get through my huge digital document project. i’ve decided that any thing that can be accessed online will no longer be scanned in which has cut down on the amount of paper work in the scan pile. the new problem is that the pile for shredding is crazy huge. minor issues, i know.

i know it’s only mid-february but i’m already dreading the summer when all the good television shows go back into hibernation. for now i will just have to make the most of everything on right now. the season premiere of amazing race was absolutely amazing. i want to try out for the show but i haven’t found anyone to apply with. it would be a great experience to do some of those things they do.

more to come later when i can think clearly.