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And once again, my entire office smells like the sewers. Just Mexican instead of Irish this time. And really, I don't particularly think General Seguiín would appreciate the commemoration of his victory with cheap tequila and watery beer ( Read more... )

ALEX.  Need more coffee.  If you throw in a couple of shots of whiskey, I'll give you a bonus.

Our esteemed CEO is spending the week in California at the Four A's conference and while this would ordinarily seem like a blessing, he won't stop emailing me with his supposedly "brilliant" ideas.  How this man ever rose to the head of the agency, I ( Read more... )

[Private to Alex]
[Following this conversation]

Alex-
Two new interns will be starting on Monday.  Deal with them.  The guy is going to the copywriters and the girl to accounts.  Unless you have some use for her - then just claim her for yourself.  As long as they're productive.  And find fifteen minutes in my schedule so I can talk to them.

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I loathe April Fool's Day.  If there was a day that I could have stricken from the calendar, tomorrow would be it.

I hope you are all enjoying your hangovers.

To do:  (And yes, this is a proper to-do list, not some trashy list of men I would like to sleep with.  As if I would ever create such a thing.)

- Fire assistant
- Resist urge to subject now-former assistant to medieval torture devices
- Find a florist  [Scribbled in after a few minutes] in no way connected to Neverlanders
- Hire new assistant
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So after five solid months of bending over backwards to make the most annoying client in the world happy, I have now landed the biggest deal of my career.  Robert finally signed the papers with the agency giving us a three year, exclusive contract with Eli Lilly and Company to handle all of their North American advertising.  And the best part?  ( Read more... )

[After reading this article]

Courtesy of this morning's Times, we have perhaps one of the more profound quotes that I've seen in quite some time.  (And yes, that would be sarcasm.)

"Genital warts are a really yucky disease..."

Now you would think that such a comment would come from... oh I don't know, a twelve year old boy, perhaps?  But no, that ( Read more... )