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Are you looking forward to September? Yes, actually, I am.

September is coming and as nervous as I am about the school year, I am not not as depressed about it as I have been in previous years. There are some things that are the same. I'm frantically trying to get all of my back to school shopping done and I've hardly made a dent in my summer reading. Still, September is promising to be a really exciting month for me and I really don't want to go all Green Day and sleep through it.

The election is in September. For those who don't already know, my father is running for office this year and it's been a pretty exciting race this year. There are about five candidates and it's basically been a bloodbath of a campaign for everybody. I don't think I could ever get into politics, I'm just not cold and heartless enough. In July, when people were still petitioning to get on the ballot, my father's campaign workers were working night and day searching other candidate's petitions for bad signatures, repeats, fake names, things like that. There was one of the opposing candidates who didn't have enough signatures and he was going to be kicked out of the race. When my mother told me this, I went, "Aww.... That's so sad." She looked at me like I was crazy.

Martha is in September. September should just be called National Martha Month. The month of Martha's comeback. I am so unbelievably excited about Martha's (TWO) new shows that I am more than willing to cough up enough money for cable and learn how to use a VCR to watch them. Two whole shows -one that's on every day- to feed my addiction!

And then.... Buffalo Buzz is in September. And this is where I've probably lost a few of you. This by far probably the most exciting if not important thing happening in September. Back in the summer of 2004, my sister had the idea of starting a newspaper called The Buffalo Buzz. This was not our first self publishing endeavor, we had created such titles as "The Elmwood Enquirer" and "The Black Cat: Buffalo's Dark Humor Zine" in the past, but this one was definitely the one that showed the most promise. Come on, it definitely had the most catchy name.

Well, we started writing it. Mostly on and off since none of us really have any organizational skills. I don't think we really got that many visitors, but we must have gotten a few, because at the beginning of the summer, I got a phone call from the owner of Buffalo Rising. He said that he was interested in getting The Buffalo Buzz to be affiliated with or even part of Buffalo Rising. I was very excited and after a brief meeting with the co-owners of Buffalo Rising, my sister and I agreed to have Buffalo Buzz be a channel on the Buffalo Rising website when it relaunches on September 12th.

Since joining Buffalo Rising, my life has been very busy, but in a really good way. I've been having meetings with the owners every few days discussing the new web design and working with them on the Style channel of the site. Just a few days ago, I met with the style editor for Buffalo Rising and we decided that it would be a really cool idea to have some sort of Back To School photo shoot featuring clothing from local stores. It's amazing how much people do for you if you tell them they're going to be featured in Buffalo Rising. We already have several local shops donating clothing, we have the shooting location set up, we have lighting, we have models, and we have a hair stylist from a local salon set up for the shoot. We plan on shooting on next Tuesday and putting the photos up when the site launches. And I'm going to be the photographer.

I am so insanely excited about all of this. It's such an opportunity and I've always dreamed of doing something like this. Joan, the style editor at Buffalo Rising, asked me the other day if all of this was making me nervous. A chance to act like completely stressed out workoholic? I'm sure that eventually the feeling will get old, but for right now, it is so much fun!

September 2, 2005 at 02:17 PM

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