Can you believe there is a whole day dedicated to Pancakes here? Sounds like heaven right? I will get to that in a sec, but first I have let you know about Monday.
Monday was a very blah day for me. I got up early to go to work. We had our weekly breakfast in the Clerkenwell Kitchen. I really love the people I work with. They want to help me have the best experience inside and outside the workplace. We talked about travel and good things to do in Paris, which I hope to visit next weekend. When we got back I got my first assignment of the week. I am to write a awards entries for few packages tdg did last year.
An hour or so after we got back from breakfast, the power went out. Apparently the construction that is going on at the nearest tube station knocked out the power within a few blocks, but thankfully the tube was still working so I had a means to get back. I learned that rolling blackouts have been predicted throughout England for some time now because they can't supply enough energy for themselves at the moment. England imports excess nuclear energy from France. I guess you learn something new everyday.
We decided to abandon ship because without power there is no internet, and without internet, we really can't do much. How sad is it that today's workplace is so centered around the internet that we literally can't work without it? This meant that I was back in my room at Vandon House by 1:30pm with my work but no motivation to do it, so I took a nap. The rest of the day was more of me avoiding work, and sharing my computer with Bailey since her computers motherboard fried on Vday.
I did finish my though, and got up bright and early the next morning with a little hop in my step as I set off for work. It was Pancake Day in England. It's the same as Fat Tuesday in the States, but instead of eating whatever they want, they stuff themselves with cakes and pancakes. Everything was fine until I got off the tube and realized that it was raining and I had forgotten my umbrella. That meant I had to walk 10 minutes in a near down pour with only a free Metro paper to cover me. Did I mention that my hair frizzes when it gets wet? Anyway, the day went well. I turned in my assignment and it got "good job" but I needed more information to really complete it, and I would get that next week. For lunch we decided to check out a new startup food spot called Poncho no.8, the gourmet burrito kitchen. It was good, but I still prefer Pancheros. They are basically the same thing. The burritos were so big that we were stuffed when we were done and decided not to get cakes from the cake man down the street from our office. Hopefully I will meet him next week.
When we got back I chatted with Suni about some of the research that I had done, and my new assignment is to look at how people package things that have a lot of information to display. This means I get to go shopping. Woot! At 4:30 Patrick took me too a Pizza shoot that was taking place right down the road. I am not kidding you when I say it takes food photographers and a whole crew 3 days to get the perfect 6 photographs of a pizza for promotional and packaging usage. It really was an experience. I met a lot of different people at the shoot including a creative director. He was such a nice guy and showed me a whole bunch of stuff having to do with what it takes to get a final product out on the market. From there I went back to Vandon House.
It was an exhausting day. Today was class day. I had advertising in the morning and Art in the afternoon. We went to the National Gallery and looked a some Renaissance Christian art. I got to see works by Raphael, Bellini, and more. Sadly we weren't allowed to take pictures but maybe I will find some on the internet and share. I have a funny credit card story coming next. Stay tuned...
Pip Pip Cheerio!
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