September 24, 2004
Annette McConnell and Scott Sanford
I got the following email from Annette McConnell a while back, and I just love this story because it's about me!
I am married to another C/D alum, Scott Sanford, who was a media planner in Bob Zach’s org from 89-91. We are living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am still in the agency world at a small tech shop called Doremus and Scott is now marketing director at a company called Tickle.com. We have a little boy named Miles. I’ve attached a recent picture.
Now for the amusing anecdote:
Shortly after we started dating, Scott left C/D to work at Messner (with Tom Szczepanski and Fiona Bremner). At that time, Chiat primarily used email internally, so he had the Messner IT guy set us up so we could email each other. One day, after a mushy email note, my phone rang. It was you, Steve Alburty, HEAD OF IT, saying in a very authoritative voice: “are you in love with Scott Sanford or something?!?!?” As my face turned red, I said “why?” and you answered “because every time you two send an email, you crash our whole system!!!!” Needless to say I was completely embarrassed and curtailed the email love notes.
I am horrified that I stood in the way of true love! Thank heaven they managed to overcome this electronic obstacle!
Posted by alburty at September 24, 2004 06:20 PMHEY Annette! How great to see you. I loved working with you (even though I was the one who laid you off). If I remember you and I got nice and tanked that night!
Posted by: Eve at September 27, 2004 07:05 PM