Check out some of the latest stuff from my job...
These are some results of the banner ad campaign we did the shoot with acrobats for...you can see me in the pink t-shirt on the left....and in here too, holding an arrow sign.
The company also just completed a really cool viral project which you should all send around to amuse your friends. Check it out: Private Dick Movie.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tea at the Ritz
So last night a group of 6 gals went to tea at the Ritz Hotel. It was fab. A splendid excuse to get all togged up and make a spectacle of ourselves, to be sure. Went with some rollergirls: Slice Andice, Bikini Killer, Lady Frankenstein, and two friend's of Slice's who were visiting from LA (how funny to get a taste of home from them). Slice had her brand new custom fit corset dress and needed a place to wear it, so we all went full out with full rockabilly costumes, including fake lashes and cuban heeled stockings. I saw a hat on Oxford Street that I had to have, and this became the basis for my look. It was super fun. We ate finger sandwiches, tasty pastries, fresh scones, drank champagne and tea, and generally felt very posh. Then we walked through Leicester Square and Picadilly Circus and Soho, and had people stop us to take pictures with them. Good London times. I highly recommend it if you have a spare £36 and wants a taste of old fashioned London....check out some pics:
Group Shot Outsite the Ritz
My Fabulous Hat
Group Shot Outsite the Ritz
My Fabulous Hat
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Massive Update
I know you are all wondering just what I have been up to, right?! Well first of all, I have become enamored of the interrobang which is my new favorite form of punctuation. :)
That aside, I have been a busy gal. Work takes up my day, and then I am usually out at night, either at practice, a roller derby meeting, with friends at the pub, or at the gym. Life has taken on an everyday life pattern. I am starting to feel like a real Londoner – which means pretty much what ever you want it to mean, since there are so many different people living here from so many different backgrounds
The job is still good, although not without it’s frustrations from time to time. No matter how much fun you are having in this industry, it’s still the fast paced stressful work of interactive consulting. The pressures of project management mean that you are constantly juggling the needs of the company, the client, the team, the budget, the timeline, etc… It’s often a thankless task – one that brings all the responsibility with none of the power to back it up. I am actually coming to the end of my current contract, and will be taking time off starting the first week of August. I am heading back to the states to go to Rollercon in Las Vegas, and then I will be in LA for a few weeks. Then I am back in London for a few weeks before heading to France with my extended family, then to Munich for Oktoberfest with my brother and some friends. Then back to work again. In theory. BTW….thank you Microsoft for announcing that you are buying Aquantive for $66 a share….that was sweet. (Courtney’s travels and potential to actually own property at some point in her adult future now brought to you by Microsoft™...but made on a Mac™)
I am actually feeling a bit weird about the prospect of being back in LA. I still miss friends and family a lot, but I also feel like this has now been a positive transition for me. So there is this torn feeling of not wanting to feel like I just got back from a long vacation. It’s almost like I haven’t been gone long enough to make it feel like a visit to where I “used to live”. It’s still a bit fresh. I am not sure how I will react….I almost suspect that aside from seeing the people, I will be feeling like I just want to get “home” to London. I guess that would be a good reaction though, as opposed to some great sense of belonging and a desire to stay in LA. Then we might have a bigger problem, right? It’s going to be different either way. For one, I gave up my apt, so even though I will probably hang out in the same neighborhood, I am not going to be someone who “lives” in the hood anymore. No home base in Santa Monica with all my furniture and stuff. I suppose that shouldn’t really matter though, since I grew up in Santa Monica and have lived in other places before. It does still always feel a bit like home when I go back, no matter what.
Also there has been movement on the friend perspective. Mo is going back to Chicago, so while I will see her at Rollercon, when I get back to LA the trio of Mo/Bette/Joetta will be gone. I guess I already broke it by moving, but still….Maybe Joetta and I can get Scarlene roped in for some debauchery.
I do have a massive shopping list though. What is expensive here or what can I not get here?
* Crest toothpaste
* Deodorant that isn’t in a spray can
* Cetaphil
* ANY makeup (it costs more in pounds than it does in dollars!)
* Nail polish (ditto)
* Massive quantities of Emergen-C packets from Trader Joe’s ($30 a box here!)
* Comfortable and cute shoes
* Gym shoes
* a whole new set of roller derby pads
* quite possibly a whole new set of skates (my current boots are not working out)
* SOME GOOD MEXICAN FOOD
* Random items that every person I know has made me promise to buy for them
Back to London though. I know I already said that I LOVE my new neighborhood, but let me re-iterate that strongly. I totally love living in Portobello. Ok, the downside is that pretty much none of the rollergirls live in West London, so it can be a bit of a trek sometimes, but it’s ok. It’s just so pleasant and pretty and eclectic and neighborhoody. It totally reminds me of living by Main Street in Santa Monica, except in a more charming less beachy British kind of way. I am already a regular at the activist coffee shop, where us flatmates and former flatmates gather on the weekends for lattes and flat whites. The street market is always buzzing on a Saturday morning, and there are plenty of great neighbothood bars and pubs to hang out in. I think people can definitely fall into the trap of just staying in Notting Hill, but luckily I like to explore. I always have it as a base, but I also manage to get around the rest of London pretty well. Have discovered the loveliness of a summers eve on the Southbank of the river, the clubs and gritty/arty fun of the east end, the massive after work happy hours of the SoHo pubs (not to mention late nights at The Ship and Garlic & Shots), the ease of the night buses…not to mention the people watching. I have even braved the lines of Primark on Oxford Street….with its uber-cheap trendy clothes luring the shopaholic masses.
Oh, and I got tattooed. Been thinking about that since I was about 19, and other than my little finger mustache from 5 months ago, I had nothing. So I wanted something that represented me in more than a few ways, and perhaps something that also represented where I am now. I ended up with the heraldic rose symbols for a tumultuous period of English medieval history….The War of the Roses. They are about 3 inches across on the lower back of each leg….the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York. Oh and I also got an exclamation mark on the side of my left hand pointer finger. Cause I am funny.
What!!?? You expect pics on this blog?
Next time. :)
That aside, I have been a busy gal. Work takes up my day, and then I am usually out at night, either at practice, a roller derby meeting, with friends at the pub, or at the gym. Life has taken on an everyday life pattern. I am starting to feel like a real Londoner – which means pretty much what ever you want it to mean, since there are so many different people living here from so many different backgrounds
The job is still good, although not without it’s frustrations from time to time. No matter how much fun you are having in this industry, it’s still the fast paced stressful work of interactive consulting. The pressures of project management mean that you are constantly juggling the needs of the company, the client, the team, the budget, the timeline, etc… It’s often a thankless task – one that brings all the responsibility with none of the power to back it up. I am actually coming to the end of my current contract, and will be taking time off starting the first week of August. I am heading back to the states to go to Rollercon in Las Vegas, and then I will be in LA for a few weeks. Then I am back in London for a few weeks before heading to France with my extended family, then to Munich for Oktoberfest with my brother and some friends. Then back to work again. In theory. BTW….thank you Microsoft for announcing that you are buying Aquantive for $66 a share….that was sweet. (Courtney’s travels and potential to actually own property at some point in her adult future now brought to you by Microsoft™...but made on a Mac™)
I am actually feeling a bit weird about the prospect of being back in LA. I still miss friends and family a lot, but I also feel like this has now been a positive transition for me. So there is this torn feeling of not wanting to feel like I just got back from a long vacation. It’s almost like I haven’t been gone long enough to make it feel like a visit to where I “used to live”. It’s still a bit fresh. I am not sure how I will react….I almost suspect that aside from seeing the people, I will be feeling like I just want to get “home” to London. I guess that would be a good reaction though, as opposed to some great sense of belonging and a desire to stay in LA. Then we might have a bigger problem, right? It’s going to be different either way. For one, I gave up my apt, so even though I will probably hang out in the same neighborhood, I am not going to be someone who “lives” in the hood anymore. No home base in Santa Monica with all my furniture and stuff. I suppose that shouldn’t really matter though, since I grew up in Santa Monica and have lived in other places before. It does still always feel a bit like home when I go back, no matter what.
Also there has been movement on the friend perspective. Mo is going back to Chicago, so while I will see her at Rollercon, when I get back to LA the trio of Mo/Bette/Joetta will be gone. I guess I already broke it by moving, but still….Maybe Joetta and I can get Scarlene roped in for some debauchery.
I do have a massive shopping list though. What is expensive here or what can I not get here?
* Crest toothpaste
* Deodorant that isn’t in a spray can
* Cetaphil
* ANY makeup (it costs more in pounds than it does in dollars!)
* Nail polish (ditto)
* Massive quantities of Emergen-C packets from Trader Joe’s ($30 a box here!)
* Comfortable and cute shoes
* Gym shoes
* a whole new set of roller derby pads
* quite possibly a whole new set of skates (my current boots are not working out)
* SOME GOOD MEXICAN FOOD
* Random items that every person I know has made me promise to buy for them
Back to London though. I know I already said that I LOVE my new neighborhood, but let me re-iterate that strongly. I totally love living in Portobello. Ok, the downside is that pretty much none of the rollergirls live in West London, so it can be a bit of a trek sometimes, but it’s ok. It’s just so pleasant and pretty and eclectic and neighborhoody. It totally reminds me of living by Main Street in Santa Monica, except in a more charming less beachy British kind of way. I am already a regular at the activist coffee shop, where us flatmates and former flatmates gather on the weekends for lattes and flat whites. The street market is always buzzing on a Saturday morning, and there are plenty of great neighbothood bars and pubs to hang out in. I think people can definitely fall into the trap of just staying in Notting Hill, but luckily I like to explore. I always have it as a base, but I also manage to get around the rest of London pretty well. Have discovered the loveliness of a summers eve on the Southbank of the river, the clubs and gritty/arty fun of the east end, the massive after work happy hours of the SoHo pubs (not to mention late nights at The Ship and Garlic & Shots), the ease of the night buses…not to mention the people watching. I have even braved the lines of Primark on Oxford Street….with its uber-cheap trendy clothes luring the shopaholic masses.
Oh, and I got tattooed. Been thinking about that since I was about 19, and other than my little finger mustache from 5 months ago, I had nothing. So I wanted something that represented me in more than a few ways, and perhaps something that also represented where I am now. I ended up with the heraldic rose symbols for a tumultuous period of English medieval history….The War of the Roses. They are about 3 inches across on the lower back of each leg….the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York. Oh and I also got an exclamation mark on the side of my left hand pointer finger. Cause I am funny.
What!!?? You expect pics on this blog?
Next time. :)
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