Black Tie Lounge

I should be on craig's list looking for apartments right now--seeing as how the place I'm at is kicking me out next Saturday. I should be looking up information for this intern project seeing as how I have a meeting with the team to brief them on the research that I should have. I'll more than likely just pass out after I finish this blog. It's 10:30 and I just got home from a full day at the agency. Not really. I was in meetings for most of the day but one meeting really set the tone for my day. I got a call from my Account Sup saying that the agency's hiring group contacted her. Pretty much they were interested to see if am worthy enough to be hired. She told me to set up a meeting with the account team and to come prepared with a list of my strengths and weaknesses. Basically, I had to come ready to tell them why they should hire me. I was really hoping this meeting would take place later in the week. Just my luck the only time available for everyone on the team ...

Today I spent the day with a good friend from high school. Actually I had a crush on her back in the day. Take a look at her and you will definitely be able to tell why, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. My sister who just graduated from high school told me that she heard that your high school years are supposed to be the best years of your life. I was definitely there to disappoint her. Lol. I let her know, not in these exact words but, high school is the best years of your life for those that don't grow. Life goes so much further than the ages of 15-18 and if those are your best years, then that is very sad. On another hand, I look back at my high school days and I have grown tremendously since then. I'm not exactly the same person, but I'm thankful for the friends, the true friends that grew up with me after that time. So back to my story of my former crush in high school, the fact that we can still get together after some odd years and clown like we u...

I was too tired to write about this yesterday but check this: I was sent out on an assignment to pick up some of our client's products. Since our product is motor oil and people don't drive in Manhattan I had to go another borough to pick up the product. Mind you the product was about 10 2 gallon jugs of our competitor's oil. I made a few calls to different auto stores in Brooklyn hoping to pick them up in one stop. The best I could do was find two stores semi close to the other to pick up the product. I expected to be out for just one hour. I even scheduled a conference call with one of the clients I do freelance writing for. The assignment ended up being a horrible 4 hour trip. So here is the breakdown of the trip: Money is low and I don't have my car so I relied on the subway and buses to get me where I needed to go. Prior to arriving at the auto store I got instruction on which bus to take. I ride out to Brooklyn to pick up 6 bottles of the product. I haven't ...

I'm so behind in the world. I am just now trying to figure out how to upload pics and vid from my phone to my computer. Right now, I am not having much success. I caught some good video of Q-Tip performing this past weekend at Summer Stage in Central Park. It was a totally free show that featured Chester French , Little Dragon, and Benji B. If you ask me who the other three are I don't have much to tell you. The show was live. I withstood the aroma of ganja in the atmosphere and the blazing heat to watch the former member of Tribe Called Quest pull out old and new hits to keep the crowd moving. You would have thought I was going crazy when Vivrant Thing and Bonita Applebum came on. It was even crazier to see the thousand person crowd jump up and down as one as we shouted "Here we go yo! Here we go yo! So what, so what, so what's the scenario?" I was geeking like crazy! I remember the days I was afraid of hip hop. The days I used to listen to house music. I was n...

Advertising!! I definitely did not set out on a path to go into this field. Now that I'm here, I want to get all I can. The agency is treating me well, but today I reached my point of being challenged. Yes, the working under the pressure of deadlines is rough--especially when you find out 30 minutes before the supervisor wants it. Doing research just to come up with two items isn't all that great too. What keeps me here? Well, seeing as how it's only been dang one month, I have a lot to learn. So today, I vented to a fellow intern about how you spend time doing things just to get a recommendation to go into a different direction. I had to disappoint my supervisor when I could only find a few items online when I know there were more. Long story short I hit my few walls where I felt like I was screwing things up. I'm sure there will be more, a lot more. Most of all, I went into this opportunity keeping in mind that I'd screw up. That I'd get yelled at. That I'...

My blog looks a little different now. I wanted to use a new template but that template turned out to be bogus. I switched back to my old template but I deleted all my widgets. Now you are stuck with a blog that is just plain text on a black background. It will have to do for now until I feel like changing it. After sitting around most of the day watching work out videos and not really working out to them, I headed out to 12 Ave to see the fire works. I'm still new to NYC but I guess the tradition is to watch fire works over the Hudson River. Going out there reminded me of how crowded things were in when I was in D.C. for the Inauguration. (I think I spelled that wrong, but hey!) I forgot all about the crowd so I was not mentally prepared to be there. Still, my friends and I were able to move our way to a decent spot to view the show. I'll upload the video shortly for your viewing pleasure. While I was out there watching the colorful explosion and plethora of shapes created by t...

After about 10 minutes of looking at other blogs and listening to Floetry's demo of Butterlies , made famous by the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson. On that note, I'm blown by his death but I got a bit cynical because it was like people were idolizing him. He revolutionized the music industry and helped make it possible for so many artist, which I respect. I just got a lil uneasy because his death made me think of how people are so star focused. People fall out on the floor for celebrities but forget what really matters is eternity. We're quick to respect the gift of life when someone dies but not on a day to day basis. I had to fall back when I found out that he accepted Christ. Moving forward, I've lived in NYC for a total of 3 weeks. A little less if you count the fact that my past two weekends were spent moving out of my apartment in VA. I'm still eating on a budget. Fruit stands on the corner are the best thing that has happened to me in this city. Strawberri...