today was a highly productive day. leighanne made our networking calls and we headed out to buffalo for the day. met with our contact at bob to get a cd from her. possibly got myself in an incredible project that i can’t talk about. the first rule of the project is you do not talk about the project. but i’ll say it’s totally amazing and i’ll die if i really get to do it. we asked if the building would be in open doors niagara this year, no. too much work to be done in the stabilization process, and too unsafe to let people in currently. i asked about a time table for the stabilization to be complete, they don’t know cuz apparently the state dormitory commission is in charge of it (not the current hospital) and didn’t get all the money they were supposed to get.
from there headed to the buffalo science museum to meet with…um..someone there. a curator maybe. not sure his title. but we went to see the original stuffed buffalo from central terminal in storage at the museum. very cool. while i’m not doubting that it is THE stuffed buffalo…stories kind of conflict. the way russell explains it, the buffalo was going bald from people stealing hairs off it. the buffalo we saw was very hairy still. definitely no bald spots on the side we could see. but then leighanne took some pictures, and the flash shows lighter spots on the hide, where if people were going to touch it for good luck, it might wear out. it was dark in the room so maybe we just couldn’t tell it was going bald. hah. either way, it was cool.
from there, went to the buffalo library to go through their archives about the terminal. some cool stuff there, definitely not enough time to really get through it all. wrote down some contacts because apparently 2 films were possibly made about/at the terminal. one is apparently a documentary about the terminal, the other one a film shot completely at the terminal (which could be the one russell sometimes referrs to). going to try to contact these people to get copies or whatnot. also the library had internet print outs of sites related to the terminal (including ninj’s journal reports on infiltration). one mentioned the site i had found once last year, that was AMAZING (i thought it was the official terminal site), but had since disappeared. well it hasn’t disappeared. i found it today. which actually sorta depresses me, because it’s such an incredible site that i’m not sure i can top that for the official site. but i’ll try not to think about that. i’m glad i know now i’m not insane, and i didn’t imagine finding that site. it did/does exist, just with a changed URL (tho i’m not sure in all my searches for central terminal, it didn’t show up recently).
doing last minute things for tomorrow. not dying my hair. it’s just gonna stay orange for at least another day. my mom actually didn’t freak, she said it was cute. hahah.
leighanne: “she’s too calm to be standing at the foot of sex”
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sara: “bill clinton jokes are so 4 years ago”
leighanne” *spits out water*
coming after the break, update on the fundraiser