28
September
2008
Amanda: Damnitttttt I hate myself
Anna: it’s going to be OKAY.
Amanda: No sleeps until Tuesday night
Blarrrggghh
Anna: what time do you finish work?
Amanda: And then Thursday presentation
I also have to move out of my apartment tomorrow?!
Anna: aaaah! i am stressed for you.
Amanda: Ah, don’t be
I think I am stressed enough for a village of people
Anna: at least a small town
Amanda: Maybe I am relieving a village somewhere else in the world of their stress
I am happy to take that burden
In the form of.. Stuff to InDesign
Anna: a true philanthropist
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There is a lot to be done.
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10
August
2008
Vicki needed models for two hair photo sessions at Blanche Macdonald: avant-garde and editorial. So I was both. It was fun! Sitting in the salon chair for the whole day, having crazy things done to my hair while Vicki and 17 other hairstylists bustled about their models. Google Image Search ‘avant-garde hair’ if you have no idea what I’m referring to - I saw girls with all sorts of things in their hair: feathers, fluorescent green, whole bouquets of fake flowers.. and wine bottles?
When my hair was being back-combed into a large tangle it looked kind of tornado-like so someone joked that Vicki should run with that theme. In the end, I had two large styrofoam balls wrapped in hair attached to my head and some other craziness I can’t quite explain. I get the professional photos soon and will Flickr them. But I still wish she took my suggestion of putting tiny cows and Monopoly houses in the hair tornado.
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28
July
2008
Abi left a big box of stuff (mostly books) to be shipped to him in Den Haag. He recently decided he didn’t need all of if, so I listed everything in an e-mail for him to mark off the lighter shipment.
In the order I pulled them out of the box:
[ ] Look at This: Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues & Documents / Adrian Shaughnessy
[ ] New Typographic Design / Roger Fawcett-Tang
[ ] Idea 316: The Conditions of Graphic Design / Seibundo Shinkosha
[ ] Idea 324: Maps and Digrams / Seibundo Shinkosha
[ ] Designing Type / Karen Cheng
[ ] Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design /
[ ] A Wanderer in the Perfect City / Lawrence Weschler
[ ] SEED Science is……… / April 2008
[ ] Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Revised Edition / Raymond Williams
[ ] Dictionary of Critical Theory / Penguin Reference
[ ] Dot Dot Dot 11
[ ] Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography / Ed. Steven Heller & Philip B. Meggs
[ ] Edward Wright: readings, writings
[ ] Dot Dot Dot 14
[ ] Dot Dot Dot 10
[ ] Pts. 5 / September 2003
[ ] The Uncertain States of America Reader / Ed. Horowitz & Sholis
[ ] Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography / Robin Kinross
[ ] Box of old business cards
[ ] Everything Mac, Everything Else
[ ] Linotype Company linespacing / baseline / etc ruler
[ ] Two sets of type flashcards I think you made
[ ] A box labelled ‘Type Specimens 01′
[ ] A box labelled ‘Type Specimens’
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26
July
2008
My mom likes to keep stuff around. So Abi and I have a habit of digging things up whenever we’re at home. Last night I found a book I made for my parents for Christmas when I was in sixth grade. In it, I had written some letters for the future. The following was a Christmas card addressed to my best friend:
Dear Danielle Blair Hilroy:
I’ve missed you so much since you left and went to Brazil to study plants and animals. It’s too bad you weren’t here for my wedding on August 28th, 2009. You haven’t even met my new husband. Anyways, I hope you love your holiday with your kids Joel and Daniel. I’ve sent them some gifts, it’s the least I could do for such a dear friend. I hope they like the gifts. So how’s your husband Edward doing I heard he threw you a $2000.00 23rd birthday, whoa! Too bad I missed it, well you missed mine! This card I’m sending you is an antique don’t wear it out, it’s worth a few hundred dollars. My grandmas are doing very well thanks for asking, so are my parents. How’s Boyd and Sandra and Brett? Sorry about Jester’s ‘run away’ but you’ll find him soon. Amy gave birth to 12 kittens - wow! Be sure to save me one! My little brother Allan just finished school - isn’t that great? He’s found a job as a doctor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he gets $34 dollars an hour. Oh, yes I got that lawyer job I’ve wanted since completing Harvard Law. It pays me $500 an hour, I’m a litigator. Congrats on Daniel’s birth!
Your dearest friend,
Amanda Bateman <3
My how times have changed.
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