Curiouser and curiouser!

Friday night, Alex, Bryan and I ventured out for a night on the town. First stop, Albright Knox Art Gallery. Having been fooled into thinking parking was free, we vengfully made the most of our $3 fee! Making our way around the first floor, we stumbled upon a room. Through the panes of glass we could see this room held treasures such as grapes, and cheeses and chardonnay! The sign clearly said that this place was for art pick up only and that it closed promptly at 8pm. It being much after 9pm, Alex decided it was still up for grabs. Slowly he leaned on the handle and to our delight the door opened! Bryan and I being cautious, quickly ventured away from the scene of the crime up the hall a bit. Yes, even at 25 I'm a bit of a coward and the fake sense of authority has still got a hold on me. Soon, a pair of hipsters sidled up to the open door. They too disregarded the sign since the door was now open and went in. Bryan and I decided this florage of people made it ok to go in now; best to get in trouble in numbers. Glasses were passed, and still being the coward I am, I downed my full glass of chardonnay. Feeling light headed, we made our way to the remainder of the exhibit. Coming up the stairs, to our DELIGHTFUL surprise, was the best part of the gallery...especially at this mental state in time...a GIANT set of 4 chairs and a table. I forget who said it now, but he said it perfectly, this "Alice and Wonderland moment" made the trip worthwhile. We began knocking on the chairs, running in and out of the legs and hiding behind pillars to catch some of it on camera.

Had it not been for the 2 dollar return in sacagawea's I got from the automatic parking attendant machine, my night at the Albright Knox would have been damn near perfect!

In books, or work, or healthy play,
Let my first years be passed
That I may give for every day
Some good account at last.

My friend Ian has become a big hit in China. He was initially over there to do a show, but also picked up some modeling! Check out these pictures that he's in for a Chinese magazine! His show has been cancelled so he will be returning to the US 5 months earlier than expected....I'm estatic. I've missed him so!

Things that are bugging me today...

I think it’s really strange that we can’t tell what’s wrong with us or explain why we do certain things.

I’ve been having a slight pain in my lower right abdomen for the past couple days, so what do I do? I Google it. Why is it that we can’t have receptors that tell us when something’s wrong like when a light in your car goes off, “oh, looks like I need oil!” Or, how come I still don’t know where anything is located in my body?? “Anything important on this side I should be worried about with a pain there? Any major organs?” I usually get the same response, “uhhhh, aren’t your kidneys in the back?”

Also, the inexplicable behavior….

For instance, I have this general feeling that I really shouldn’t like Ryan Adams. I honestly don’t know where or when this opinion was formed, I just have a feeling. And yet, when he came on my Pandora Radio today, I loved one of his songs. I can’t tell you the amount of cognitive dissonance this caused. And another thing, EVERYDAY, and more than likely it’s every single time I come back to my apt. I check my milk box. Who would be putting things in my milk box? Yet, I insist on checking it because what if one day, someone decided to leave me a special something in my milk box and I never checked it??

Meet Your Shower

I really wanted to get up and see the Leonid's last night. I ended up falling asleep around 10:30pm after an unhealthy freeze pop binge and soon I was dreaming. I had a dream that my friend holly was sleeping on my floor next to my bed. I kept pushing her and saying, "Hol, get up! Don't you want to see the meteor shower?? Get up!!" and then I woke up...it was 5:25am. The shower was supposed to peak from 3:30am to 5:30am. Quickly, I staggered out of bed and put on THE most ridiculous outfit. I knew it would be cold so I wore my fatty pants, slapped on some Cabela hunting socks, 2 sweaters, gloves, a scarf, and a winter hat. I stumbled out onto my apartment complex’s lawn looking towards the sky. I'm not sure if I actually saw things streaking across the sky or if it was my delusional state, either way, I felt satisfied enough to go back inside. Leading to my bedroom I slowly peeled everything away layer by layer and landed gently in my bed. Sleep would not assist me for another hour. I’m more than groggy this morning.

This weekend, I finally had a chance to check out Karpeles Manuscript Museum. The current exhibit is of Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini and their views on contacting spirits through séances. Most of the scripts in the museum are notes that Doyle took while attending many different séances.

The place itself, to me anyways, held an eerie presence. I walked through the column pillars into the front door that was ajar. Right away a woman in a loud booming voice said, "HELLO...hello...hello...hello" (the latter were the echoes that reverberated from the open space that was before me). I barely whispered a hello and the woman made her way to me.

"Have you ever been here before?" she asked.

"No, someone just told me about it and said I had to come".

"That's how it usually happens" she begrudgingly followed. She gave me a quick rundown of what the exhibit was about; all of which I had read on the website beforehand. I made my way into the lit room where an even bigger space presented itself. She told me it used to be a church. The many rows of pews leading down towards the alter gave it away.

Slowly, I made my way around to each of the lit boxes, each containing a document and summary of what it said. Some of the writing is nearly illegible. The room itself was literally freezing. Having been warm outside all day, I was shocked at such a cold space. I kept sniffling as my nose began to run. Pretty soon I had irritated my nostrils to their fullest extent. With a big inhale, I let out a substantial sneeze. The echo that this sneeze allowed was almost deafening. I looked up as the woman behind the desk literally jumped in her seat and began eyeing me through the glass. That is when I started laughing and couldn't stop. I quickly made my way through the remainder of the exhibit, signed up for the mailing list out of pure embarrassment and got the hell outta there.

Travel Bug

So, yesterday I found out that I will be traveling for 2 weeks for work! I’m extremely excited, 1 because I get to see some friends in a couple cities that I’m going to and 2, because I finally get to meet the doctors! Some of them I’ve been working with over the phone for the last year, so it will be pretty exciting to actually meet them!! I start next week by making a trip to Atlanta, GA and then up to SC. My good friend Jon from high school lives a couple miles from where I’ll be staying in GA we discovered this morning. Needless to say we are both ecstatic since I missed his last trip to Buffalo and I finally get to meet his gf! My next trip I’ll be in IL and then WI. I’m trying to coordinate surfing with a couple that I hosted last month from Chicago. They keep telling me I’d love the city so I’d like to have a day to explore. If I get permission, I can stay in IL for an extra day and take the Amtrak to WI the next day. It’s only an hour train ride away and I'd love to ride the Amtrak again, especially along the coast.

Lady Licorice

This year for Halloween, I was Lord Licorice....or as I referred to myself, Lady Licorice