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August 21, 2003 — Leave a comment

i got in last night, flight got delayed about 35 minutes and i was waiting for a ride, so by the time i got home it was close to midnight. i`m still exhausted. spent most of yesterday after the presentation, doing fuck all. i had a couple of drinks with the competition, then had joined the potential client and one of the other agencies for lunch.

in the time between our presentation and drinks and lunch i finished my book. [go out and get this book, it`s fantastic] after lunch i went back to the room and relaxed in the jacuzzi which was not as much fun as it should have been without vic. i watched stealing havard til it was time for checkout then left for the airport.

ended up liming with some other advertising folks in the airport while we waited for our delayed flight. apparently liat [the airline we flew on] is perpetually late. in some places LIAT is an acronym for late, if at all. so we should be grateful that we didn`t spend another night in grenada.

i got a lift home with the gm of one of the competing ad agencies, i think i may need to be nicer to my boss. the woman asked if always talk to my boss that way. `what way?` [i asked somewhat innocently, knowing perfectly well what she meant.] `like you don`t respect her.` well the sad truth is i don`t. but i really should try to hide it better, i never realised that i was so obvious.

but here i am back at work, got some sleep last night but i`m still tired.

i should try and get some work done, i`ll be back later.

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and that’s a wrap

August 20, 2003 — Leave a comment

well that went well, and really i`m not being facetious. the presentation went very well, my boss dind`t embarrass as much as i thought she would. and the question and answer period went well, so i have the rest of the day to myself. well we have lunch with the client and the other agencies presenting.

i`m leaving grenada at 9:30 [barring delays] so i`ll post a summation of the days events.

have a good day, i`m going to finish my book and catch some rays.

and here i am

August 19, 2003 — Leave a comment

i`m at the spice island beach resort in grenada [vic we`re coming here, the bathroom is huge and the jacuzzi is real adult size]

i`ve been napping since i checked in for my flight at four am, airports are not made to sleep in but at least piarco does not do that piece of nonsense where they put a partition between every two seats so you can`t stretch out. so i slept in the airport, i slept on the plane, got here checked in, had a shower, had breakfast, checked the equipment and now like the addict i am, i`m here posting.

where is here you ask? it`s the business centre of the hotel ie a desktop computer, a inkjet printer in a tiny room with ac, for which my room is billed US$10 an hour. so i`m going to make the most of it, i have multiple windows open checking mail, reading the news [oh safari, oh camino, oh mozilla, how i miss thy tabbed browsing] and aim is up, hoping vic shows soon. 🙂 [if we miss each other, i`m safe love, exhausted but safe]

i should go sleep but you know that point where you`re too tired to sleep? yep that`s it, i have officially been up for 27 hours.

i`m going to go to my room now and finish my book and then have a nap. hope your day goes well. adieu

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i am packed and by all rights i should be sleeping, but it`s 1:30 am and the taxi is going to be here in two hours. if i got to sleep now, there is no way, i`m going to get up on time.

which brings me to the title of my post, when i was a wee lad; and for those of you that know me, i know that can be hard to imagine, i was once wee. anyway, my mother and i used to go to jamaica every christmas, my maternal grandparents lived there, my mother is jamaican; more things about me you didn`t know, again with the straying, must be exhaustion. the flight to jamaica, left trinidad at 7am and with the 2 hour check-in we needed to be there by five, my mother would stay up all night, packing and then sleep on the plane. looks like i`ve come full circle. i`ve been up since 6am yesterday morning. it`s an inconsequential flight [35 minutes] so by the time i fall asleep, i need to get up again. it`s my intention to check in and crawl into bed and sleep til noon. but you know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

i have no idea what the internet situation, so this maybe my last post til i return on wednesday night. i`m going to check out some other blogs, then go get dressed. be safe. caio.

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not even…

August 14, 2003 — Leave a comment

the fact that i have to go the presentation next week in grenada, is spoiling my day. it`s not the trip so much as the company. it`s just me and my boss, i intend to take lots of books and movies. the presentation is an hour, but in order to get a flight we get in the day before. so it`s two whole days. i pray that my brain does not leak out of my ear listening to her prattle on.

i`m inspired. the work is just flowing forth. i like days like this. i`m productive, i have ideas that i can keep for something else. i feel like i can take the world on today. it`s been a while since i`ve felt so completely like that. what am i beginning to like my job? [insert dramatic music here] i doubt that i like my job anymore than i did last week or the week before, this is just me, centring myself.

i have an immediate goal and i have a long term goal. both of them are completely attainable and have very little to do with a `good` job and lots of money. and over the last couple of days i feel they are within my grasp. things feel right.

back to work, i only have three more of these ads to build.

let`s start with the departure yesterday, i got my pittance of a per diem and made my way with my boss and two other co-workers off on this investigative junket. at this point we`re still pitching for the account and the trip was on the perspective client`s tab. also on this trip we representatives of two other ad agencies pitching for the business. so it`s 9 of us total, we all have the same itinerary, our tickets and hotel are booked and paid for.

and should be ready for us right? no.

we get to the airport, i approach the counter and tell the woman there i`m here to pick up tickets for… she waits til i finish my spiel to tell me, they are no starting up the system, hold on a minute. ok, my cacker-flappers are already flapping from the rest of the days experiences. i tried, i really did, but jesus but the people behind that counter just infuriated me with a level of incompetence. 7 people with prepaid tickets show up for a flight, you have a fax confirmation in the office, but you wait til we show up to start writing the tickets and the comedy of errors continued for about an hour. eventually i just walked away from the counter in disgust. finally we all got our tickets and managed to get VIP treatment for the rest of the trip.

we got to our destination a little after 10pm, check into the hotel [no internet access]

ok, this is the third millennium, internet access should be a standard, but i digress… it`s close to 11pm and all of us are ravenous, so we go off on a food jaunt which was quite successful. i got a fairly descent steak and red stripe out of it, i can`t complain.

what i can complain about is my employer who proved to be an embarrassment to us all, time and time again in all our waking hours, actually every time she opened her mouth. i could detail every time but this is already turning into the mother of all posts. i did managed to say a prayer in the moonlight on the beach, so like i said it wasn`t all bad.

today was a full breakfast, whirlwind tour of facilities, more embarrassing utterances and a meal of stupendous taste and proportions, i`m still trying to digest. i served no purpose on this trip, i could have stayed in the office and done fuck all. but i`d have missed the meals and the drinking.

ok, i`m tired, i don`t wanna type anymore.  i want to talk to vic and go to bed. i couldn`t fall asleep last night and i still managed to get up early this morning.

sunday triple feature

August 10, 2003 — Leave a comment

today has been another exceptional lazy day, i sat, correction, i lay in bed and watched movies for most of the day, i still have the last of triple feature in the computer, but i`m getting that lovely throbbing behind my eye, so i thought i`d give it a rest for a moment. so far today i watched T3 [so, so, nothing write home about] and drumline [which was actually pretty cool, plus i really like orlando jones [no, not the LOTR guy, the hot black guy who started the 7up campaign], still in the computer unwatched is tears of the sun, i`ll get to that in a bit.

i`m going up the caribbean on a site visit tomorrow. it`s one of those good news bad news scenarios, good news is that i get to go antigua for a day, bad news is i`m travelling with my boss. good news i spend the night in a luxury hotel, bad news i spend the day riding around looking at construction sites and listen to people dispense copious amounts of bullshit. well you get the general idea. i have my book to read on the plane and i`ll probably finish on the way there, so i should borrow something from the video store, so i can plug in my headphones and have an excuse to not listen to my boss` ramblings.

i have come to the conclusion, that it`s not my job i despise, it`s my boss. i don`t like stupid people and i think she`s a moron. does that make me a moron for going to work for her? whatever.

it`s a been generally a lovely weekend. the hum is back, it`s like a switch has been flicked, since vic left there has been a sexual thought in my head, i got home last night and my body started humming, i couldn`t wait to get out of my clothes, my dreams were filled memories of vic`s visit. i`m still tingly. i like that feeling, even separated by thousands of miles, victoria can stimulate my body and mind.

while i was waiting for js to come back online after the service interruption, i was cleaning up my bookmarks and following some links and i thought i`d share a few….

in the beginning there was the first blog

an interesting look at image retouching [makes you wonder what`s real doesn`t it]

which brings me to this and this[which begs the question, why?]

how did you celebrate

and finally a topic very close to my heart, ummm, lips

i`m tired, the shoot went well and we managed to not get back to work til almost 3pm. i would have gone straight home, but my boss was in my ass like a tick to finish the logos. i think i`m just going to go into tomorrow and finish them and come back home. i feel like crap.

my stomach has been doing back flips all day, i have a massive headache and i`m tired. and i can`t go to bed now, i`ll be up in the wee hours of the morning plus i have work to do, i have to finish a friends art gallery brochure, the show starts in a week and i have another job converting some quark files. the second job is for my birthday present fund. i want to get myself two things for my birthday, a 20Gb iPod and an 80GB internal drive for my laptop. i have about two weeks to make the money, i think it`s doable.

i`m going to try to eat some food and see if i feel any better and the get to work. i`ll be back later.

no focus

August 6, 2003 — Leave a comment

i’m sitting here at work, supposedly working on this logo, i’m uninspired, unable to focus, strangely i don’t  think this has much to do with my unhappiness with my job. honestly, i miss vic. i’m finding it almost impossible function since she left, i can’t sustain the energy to do anything. i can’t deal with large groups of people. i want the company of other people, but at the same time, i don’t want to have to deal with people. i have stuff to do and i don’t feel like doing it. i’m extremely irritable and short tempered. i’m trying to hold it together because it’s what i do, but i’m not sure how much longer i’ll be able to keep up the facade. i find myself on the verge of bursting into tears at the slightest provocation. i have the attention span of a gnat. i’m trying to finish typing this to trying and work out what’s going on with me and i’m fidgeting with my book, trying to do something with the logo.
i’m not doing anything well, cause i’m not focussing. i want to get some ink, the pain usually helps me focus and helps ground me. right now i feel as if i’m walking aroud in a dream.

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wheee! bleep!

August 5, 2003 — Leave a comment

i am firmly of the belief that my boss is sniffing crack in her office, either that or every time she opens her mouth a little more of what`s left of her brain leaks out.

i must be a complete fucking idiot to think i could work for someone so insipid. i have no idea why she`s irking me so much. actually that`s a lie, we get a brief [well not an entire brief, just an outline] for a presentation on august 20, now bear in mind, i spent most of yesterday working on an ad for another bunch of morons [which we had the pleasure of doing because of some political connections of one of our board members]

[aside: i always knew the police service here was populated by morons, yesterday i discovered how high up the chain the stupidity goes.]

on with the tale, this morning, the braindead wonder called my boss comes up to me and says `i need a logo design for * [* being the client we`re presenting to on aug 20], tomorrow, i need to animate it.`

WHAT THE FUCK?

breathe. i applied for the bank job. i don`t have to put up with this shit. i can find a better, less stressful job. i know i can.

all of this begs the question, why am i so upset? i`m upset because i barely have a brief, haven`t been able to do any research and the hair flicking, tittering nitwit wants me to assign it to my junior artist as well.

my resume and portfolio are here. if you have a job for me let me know. please.