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	Phil's Blogservations Friday, September 02, 2005 Posted by philgomes 4:00 AM Update On New York, New Job, New School, New People, New Outlook Update On New York, New Job, New School, New People, New Outlook Again, I'm writing in offline mode, this time on the (nearly-four-hours-delayed) flight back from Edelman's New York office. On this less-than-full flight, I've set up a kind of bivouac in this three-seat half of Row 19. By the time I get around to posting this, I will have returned to LA some time before. A good thing too, because I was starting to go into smog withdrawals. Yes, Fritzy... I even miss you and your uniquely insistent meow. "Sleep deprivation," I once heard Henry Rollins say, "makes everything look really neat." With every new job, there comes the period of meeting new people; putting the faces to names. And, I'll tell you, I met a helluvalotta smart people this week, representing such a wide variety of markets, perspectives, and communications disciplines. Looking at my PDA just now, we're talking about fourteen or fifteen people in a series of formal meetings, plus countless people encountered in the halls, in shared cube sections, on the way to lunch, over dinner, and so on. Add this to my trip to Chicago in early August — a similar experience during which I gave a series of seminars. I also brought my readings for my Annenberg class, focusing on some of the earliest online communities like The Well. For some reason, I went into this Master's program thinking that it would only begin to inform my professional life much later and after several more classes. In two weeks, though, it has already shaped (and re-shaped) some of my opinions and assumptions. Along the way, I've met some wonderful folks in the program. To paraphrase Holmes, a mind once stretched by new ideas never quite returns to its original dimension. I'm very excited by the possibilities I've been exposed to recently, between my work at Edelman and my studies at Annenberg. I'll try to share most of them here as they happen. I'm reminded of when one of my former client contacts, Adaptec's then-tradeshow doyenne Suzanne McIntosh, told me about why she felt frequent trips to art galleries helped her in her trade. "It's a creative carbo-load," was how she described it. The concept kind of stuck. Perhaps the metaphor is a bit lost on folks in these carbophobic, Atkins-addled times, but you get the point. Sometimes, it's just kinda fun being me. This week — jetlag, delayed flights, curiously malfunctioning "D" key on my laptop, and all — was one of those times. (Incidentally, I discovered that not having a working "D" key makes it kind of hard to spell "Edelman". Take the "D" out of "Edelman", and you not only get "Eelman", but a new concept for a nautically themed Cartoon Network series. Obviously, that key now works again.) Of course, this Labor Day weekend I'm going to be missing my family and friends. I'm hoping to talk my way into someone's barbeque down in LA in a lame attempt to attain some meager, ersatz substitute. I'll also be missing the Livermore Valley Harvest Wine Celebration for the second year in a row. If you're in the area, go. Also going to miss Burning Man but, since you're reading this, you probably already figured that out. Well, my professor describes "attention" as being among the scarcest of resources today. Since you made it this far into this post, you might threaten to crash the market all by yourself. Until next post... Sleep... Perchance to... Ummm... sleep, I think. HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This is the blog of Phil Gomes, SVP with Edelman Digital and senior advisor to the Society for New Communications Research. This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. Phil currently resides in Chicago, IL. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes.com View my page on PROpenMic SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.