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The past few days have been really busy ones… I’ve worked further on developing Western Kentucky University’s football TV campaign, as well as a related campaign for the WKU Alumni Association (hint: Big Red, Gary Ransdell, an elderly woman and a elbow drop). The designers and I finished up work on a “creative exploratory” — a fancy term for a proposal on how a new campaign might look — then presented it this morning to a fast-growing bank chain headquarted in the region.

Turns out, my ideas aren’t so bad after all… they really dug it, and it looks like they’ll go from prospect to serious client very soon. More interesting, though, is the feeling of positive feedback… it’s something we weren’t good at in newsland, and it’s probably been months (if not years) since I heard “good job!” and felt like the person saying it really meant it.

I guess all jobs have their ups and downs, and I’ve dealt with a few minor headaches here already. But today’s been a good day, and I’m not ashamed to say so.