What a great crowd last night at the MEDIA Agency of the Year award show. The snow was already piled up in chunky white walls around sidewalks, with Crocodile Hunter slush pools taunting pedestrians at every curb. Did this keep the cocktail- and mini-food-loving media crowd away? Hell, no! In fact, they not only represented, but they came early!

I stared out the windows during OMMA Agency of the Year with trepidation. Where was the snow? Would I get caught in it later? Did I want to tempt fate in my not so practical suede boots in order to cover the Minorities in Media party at Wicked Willy's? I grabbed my hearty Ohio "I've walked to Taco Bell in Lake Effect Snow in sneakers" sensibilities around me and darted off into the quickly chilling NYC darkness.

Last night 2010's best of the best digital -- well, maybe not explicitly digital 00 agencies gathered at the studious Yale Club in the heart of Manhattan (think of Grand Central, pumping out those people like platelets), thumbing their noses as the latest storm of snow loomed ominously, to celebrate the OMMA Agency Of the Year Awards.

I have always been a book nerd -- well, until my adult life robbed me of my time to hunker down and lose myself in a thick volume of wonderful, new-smelling pages (excuses!) I remember being yelled at for ignoring my mom, but she, and everyone else, didn't understand that when I read, I literally (literarily) could not hear anything except the movie playing out in my head. Along with a nearly insatiable appetite for reading came the need to look up words like nefarious, masticate, and obfuscate. I imagined people who had those huge dictionaries in their homes with …

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this finds you all happily ensconced in your cubes, posturing on your balance ball chairs, and crackling with "I am so ecstatic to be back at work" energy. I'm not going to lie; it's good to be back at the grind refreshed, ready to tackle a new year of social happenings in the world of media and advertising. January contains a pretty quirky lineup of events already, so I hope you're ready for more pulled-pork-slider-covered levity from Just An Online Minute!