sunny san diego

hello from california!

my computer clock says it's 11:00am, but i know it's lying. it's early as shit. i'm all kinds of messed up from these timezones. one thing i've learned for certain: working on the east coast for a west coast client is AMAZING. you get a three-hour headstart in the morning and you look productive as shit. now i'm waking up here to find that my co-workers have already logged in an hour of work. i feel behind schedule all the time!

the downside, of course, is that you end up working later, but i have a funny feeling that if i worked out here, i'd be working just as late too.

so yesterday and today i've been working out of the client's headquarters. it has been a trip meeting the people who i talk to almost daily and have never before met. it's nice to put a face to a name. that's the primary reason for the trip, i suppose.. to get me introduced to the client and for me to meet some more members of my team. it's been nice.

i guess i was expecting a little more excitement from the trip. i don't know why really. but i generally spent most of yesterday in my co-worker's cubicle doing the same daily shit i do in richmond, just located in a different timezone. we had a few meetings that were productive, so that was cool. but for the most part, it was like any other workday. not sure what fireworks i had been expecting, but either way, it's fine.

last night i had dinner with some co-workers, which is always fun because you get to hear the serious gossip and shit talk and find out what people really think of things. it was nice. my two co-workers are slightly older and probably see a lot of themselves in me as a young person starting out in the ad agency world, so they were definitely giving out a lot of advice, which was greatly appreciated. one piece of advice was ... move to new york city.

it's always been something that i thought was way out of my price range and comfort level, and the million other reasons that most people cite for not wanting to live in the crazy gigantic city that is new york. but for some reason, hearing my co-workers talk about it.. it seemed like the most simple easy thing to do. definitely got me thinking.

i've got a new york city trip coming up in october. maybe i need to keep my eyes a little more open and reconsider leaving it off the list of "phil's potential next step cities".

i'm leaving the comfort of the hotel room bed and heading off to HQ again. tomorrow i'm flying off to dallas to meet a whole other group of co-workers. it's going to be a lot more fun.. i have a feeling it's going to involve drinking, not dressing up in business casual clothes, and a lot of laughs. i'm excited.

oh, and on an unrelated note, i sort of half-watched heroes season premiere last night and decided i'm totally over this show. i kinda fell off last season and now i'm totally not into it. one more hour of weekly TV watching crossed off the list.