You might have figured out by now that I’m a huge football fan. During my stay here in London I’ve been to 10 matches, including 4 London derbys, 1 international and 2 Champions League matches.

The highlight was definitely the Liverpool match at Anfield, where the atmosphere contributed to a really special experience.

Here’s a summary of the matches I’ve been to:

20 September, Upton Park
PREMIER LEAGUE
West Ham United - Newcastle United 3-1

27 September, Craven Cottage
PREMIER LEAGUE
Fulham - West Ham 1-2  

11 October, Wembley
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA QUALIFIER
England - Kazaksthan, 5-1

26 October, Upton Park
PREMIER LEAGUE
West Ham - Arsenal 0-2

11 November, Emirates Stadium
CARLING CUP
Arsenal - Wigan 3-0

12 November, White Hart Lane
CARLING CUP
Tottenham - Liverpool 4-2

15 November, Craven Cottage
PREMIER LEAGUE
Fulham - Tottenham 2-1

25 November, Emirates Stadium
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Arsenal - Dynamo Kyiv 1-0

26 November, Anfield
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Liverpool - Olympique Marseille 1-0

14 December, Stamford Bridge
PREMIER LEAGUE
Chelsea - West Ham 1-1

What to do in New York when feeling energetic, hung over, sophisticated or just want to chill?

It’s far from complete this somewhat-tourist-guide but I find it pretty neet. As it seems the best city at the moment is New York, but it also has a London version and a Toronto beta version. Maybe the guys in those citys can start putting in their favourites.

Check it out.

www.ifeelnyc.com

An information architecture guy had a presentation/lecture for us here. He actually managed to keep up my intrest for most of the presentation. Probably the first time that happened with IA stuff for me… ;)

Everything really starts to feel regular here in London, even though every new day is nothing like the other.

Useually the days at Isobar is very different regarding to what you do. But one thing that happens every day at the exact time of 11.40 is that the sandwich guy comes in and screams (Morning sandwiches). And it starts to get very interesting, no one is ever buying anything from him, not as long as have been around at least.

Nice little sandwich story, right!

Goodnight

Hi everybody,

A little update from Glue. My 10th day at Glue is now almost over and so far it seems like it’s a nice place to work. Today we went out for lunch. 2 of the account managers had some birthday-excuse and invited a whole bunch of us to join them. It turned out to be the best lunch so far; we started out ordering beers and wine - a tradition in England I’ve heard, and then the food; burgers and chips. A perfect lunch.

Back at the office - 2 hours and some pints later - I realized that it’s not that easy to be productive, when you’re thinking about where the nearest pub might be. (Find it at www.fancyapint.co.uk). It took several cups of coffee to forget about the pub and think about something more relevant.

At the moment I’m doing research for Martin (one of the planners) and Dom (the head of emerging technology… cool job description by the way). It’s not easy to dig stuff out of the Internet, that these guys haven’t seen before, so it’s taking me some time. My research skills are probably not the best either, but my pool of bookmarks are growing extremely fast at the moment and before I leave Glue I will probably know about most of the valuable corners of the Internet.

Beside from my researching, I’m suppose to shadow each of the planners on some of their accounts, but at the moment everybody seems really busy and meetings get postponed all the time, so the shadow is a bit short. It will be better next week, I’m sure. We got some interesting clients, but I’m probably not allowed to write anything about them.

Well, that’s it for now. I will crawl my way home, dropping by all the pubs from the website mention earlier. Sightseeing is important when you’re in a new neighborhood.

Cheers,
Eskil aka. Xkill (My Jack The Ripper-ish nick)

Well… I guess it’s time to start the writing. I still don’t know what part of my time at the academy I’m gonna focus on in the posts to come…  I will try to make it interesting - even if you don’t know me and don’t care about where I live or what I eat. (Kensington something and a burger, please).

I’m probably gonna focus on my time at Glue, but I don’t know how much I’m allowed to share with the world. Until my first real post, check out www.gluelondon.com.

Cheers,
Eskil