so the fundraiser. headed out early to stop at doug’s pottery show. bought something for my mom, and leighanne picked up a few things as well. talked to doug’s mom who has various connections to people with connections to bob. she gave me a few names for info about the buildings for the book. hopefully something goes well with that. i invited both of them to the terminal whenever they want to photograph the building.

got to the fundraiser and picked out a table. people started coming en masse around quarter to 2. alot of people showed up especially in the beginning (cuz everyone thought “tours” meant actually guided tours through the entire building including the tower, not just russell talking about the building etc). talked to alot of people, people asked tons of questions. i must have answered “what happened to the buffalo?” 243 times today. so many people told me they had seen my work on the internet. thanks to the person i’m sleeping with at google who puts my site in the top 5 hits for various searches LOL. one guy said, yeah i printed these. i was like what? he said he remembers them because he printed them all at color tech for me. he remembers everything i’ve brought in, even my fathers. he was telling me how he specially prints them for me because he knows how i want them to look (in particular the ones of the glass windows, he makes sure to get true black in them). i thought he looked familiar, and it turns out he runs the college street gallery (who sells all the concert photos, and i’ve spoken to him before). he said he’s planning 2004 events and wants to do a “then and now” exhibit on the terminal, so he’s going to get in contact with me at some point. then the person who designed the picnic in the plaza poster wants to use some of my fathers photos as prototypes for the 75th anniversary graphics they’ve started working on – focusing more on the architectural points inside, rather than the outside of the building which is on everything. so that was cool. then the slow food buffalo person ran after me outside on the plaza to ask me about my web design. then the guy from the railroad association, who was fixing the roof door when we were there wednesday, started asking me about setting something up to sell some of the photos in the RRA’s possession. good networking day for me. hopefully some things pan out. leighanne started a memory book. people wrote various memories of the terminal in it. we got about 6 handwritten pages with little stories i’m going to put on the website. including brendan’s stupid story about going to catch a train there and a giant rat went walking by them as they waited. that one’s not going on the site. haha. met the person who owns/runs the .com terminal site. he admitted to not updating it in like 2 years haha. i said i noticed. rofl.

the casino attendance was…4. the guy whos name i dont remember showed, kevin showed as expected, and brendan came. the whole time we’re like, where the hell is tony, i don’t want to have to kick his ass when he doesn’t show. he showed reaaaally late. as he put it, he had a lame excuse, flat tire. but he showed and that was cool. of course mom and missy came, but tom who said he was definitely coming i didn’t see, and aunt darleen didn’t come. that’s ok. i was more than occupied the entire time.

kevin said “i hate the hair” ROFL. that was expected. i think brendan and tony were too shocked to say anything til i asked if they liked my orange hair, and they said yes (they lie i’m sure). haha when kevin said he hated my hair, i was like, i don’t care. he’s like i realize that, but i still hate it. hahah.

so after the fundraiser, we went to buca di beppos for dinner. brian and james were wusses and didn’t come with us.  and for the record JASEN GOES EXPLORING WITH US AND HE’S REALLY SUPER COOL AND SHOULD COME WITH US MORE OFTEN. JASEN ROCKS!

came home, “unpacked”, watched hedwig so leighanne could experience the hed, and then watched an inxs concert from colorado. i used to watch this tape every day in 12th grade. i’d wake up in the middle of the night and flip it on. i forgot how friggen amazing it was, and how ungodly no-man-should-be-that-sexy michael hutchence is/was. he’s a definite 20 on my 1-10 michael hutchence hotness scale. gah. it was funny, cuz we were acting like such teenie boppers watching it. it was fabulous. love love love inxs. i’d keep getting in the mood to throw in an inxs cd, but keep forgetting. i got my fill tonight.

leighanne is getting up at 4:30 to leave for home, and i’ll be the gracious host and get up at 4:30 as well. the way i see it, i’d just be getting home from work on a normal day. so no problem.

i think that’s all. took most of my color roll for class, just of candids of people and the crowd at the fundraiser. informal portraits were one of the things we were supposed to do on this assignment. the other ones i pretty much forgot. oh well. i took some pics in the restaurant too. i’ll take those in tomorrow probably. and dye my hair back to normal tomorrow too. hopefully in time to be able to dye it for a 3rd time if it looks completely fucked cuz of the bleach job on thursday. i sorta like my orange hair tho. i feel very punk rock with it. haha. i figure if the red looks really abnormal i can just erase it all with some black and be done with it. hahah black covers everything.

this is a reminder for myself, so ignore it
blurry self portraits
buy macro filters
thirteenth step series
corn maze

 

another funny leighanne moment i forgot about:

*in the car waiting for adr to come back with choco syrup, listening to u2*
leighanne: there’s this new band who did a cover of mysterious ways. i heard it the other day
sara: with the girls singing the chorus?
leighanne: yeah
sara: yeah, yesterday, i played it for you. it’s kmfdm

LOL

 

my hair is fabulously red again. i’m just hoping i didn’t miss any spots, and have bright orange chunks in the back haha. so that’s 3 hair changes in 3 days. i’m surprised i don’t have bald spots haha

i really don’t want to go to work. i’ve been working on the terminal site all afternoon. i’ve completely changed the set up, so anyone who i showed the preview too, it’s totally different now. and i think it’s going to end up being really nice. i’ve got jerry mac testing it for me, and i resolution tested it in 800/600 and 1024/786…it’s still designed for 800 but looks fine in the higher rez. glad about that, cuz i didn’t want to have to do 2 designs, one for each major rez like i was going to have to do for the first layout idea. hopefully i can make it as comprehensive as i want it to be. i’m currently working on the FAQ since i answered tons and tons of the same questions yesterday. everytime i think i’ve included everything i want to include, i think of something else that i need to add into the menu – which means i have to redo the menu every time. but i seriously think i got it all now. the only real hold up now is getting the information i need from russell – in particular what they’ve done since they took over the building, and russell’s future schemes for the building – he has some entertaining ones that i won’t include, but some of the more serious ones i think need to be on the site. people kept asking me, and i didn’t know what to tell them. my memorex answer was “it all depends on money. they need to fix the roofs, and then they can figure out what the building can be used for”

i’m so tempted to sign the list to get out early tonight, but i can’t. bad enough i’m going to have 3 shitty checks in a row. ug ug ug.

my mouth tastes like asphalt.