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We were not getting in the release party. I stood on the street looking at the red carpet as loren continued to call his boy to get us in. All while i saw a bunch of folks whom i didn’t know but are kinda famous – Megan Good, Some dude from project runway (“so fierce” is what blazey and loren just said), those 80′s swagger jackers the retro kids (and a few others). Estelle comes up and does her photo thing on the red carpet and about 20 mins later I told loren lets bounce.

But alas, we got a last min hook up from folks close to the estelle camp (home town connection) and we easily slip through. Loren (all sunglassed and fitted new suit out) and i spend 65 for a two shots and 2 drinks so we can meet the tab minimum (i love nyc’s prices) and post up. Later Estelle walks past, stops and gives us a few up and down looks points and says something nice about “you two” and continues on. Ahh, finally.

This is my dream trip for the end of summer. Most know my girl (not girl girl but homegirl girl – her blog here) is in Austraila and I don’t have much of a choice but to go see her. Mari brought up the idea of making a stop in Fiji on the way home and it got me thinking about hitting up Japan again for a week then going down under. The only problem is, well the problem is the cost. 3k for the flights. How can I be enterprising and make something of this trip?

This kid uploaded a Google SketchUp model (here) of his place and it reminded me that i did one around the time of aaron’s bday last year. I took exact measurements of our entire place, mapped them in illustrator then imported it into Google’s program – all for a house party flyer. Zach said it was mad easy, but I think i got a little in over my head with the detail (wall thickness, exact size of my windows, etc). I couldn’t figure out a few things so i gave up. I may have to re-visit it just for fun one day.

We graduated from the Visual Communication program at OSU in ’03. Gretchen is about to finish grad school and go teach at Kent State (ohio) and Steph (left) is living in North Carolina trying to ward off crazy men.