Low Blood Sugar

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Note to self: If you are going to discover that LJ is in financial crisis and has laid off a bunch of staff,* please make sure you eat first, because that takes panic factor down to zero.**  Nothing like a good baseless WE GOT MOVIE SIGN to remind you to eat dinner. Seriously, if I haven't had food, I panic about where I left my Sharpies.

 

Well, that was a bummer cherry on top of a bummer sundae of a Tuesday. Today was one of those rare occasions where Teh Flying Snowz has meant I missed something I really wanted to be doing—namely Gothmas, my friend’s notorious Twelfth Night celebration. Instead I get to stay at home, drink tea, back up my whole damn journal, and cry about the fact that my brother went back to school and about the endless void that is our existence and about how I actually found something kinda Goth to wear to Gothmas. Woe, woe.

 

Yes sir, just more fodder for the Feast of St. Emo.

 

In other news, I am sick and tired of these motherfucking snakes my hair. I’d had ambitions of growing it out because long hair is fun to play with, but now that I’m looking like I’m wearing Pippin’s wig I’m remembering that long, thick, curly, layered hair is a pain in the ass. It takes forever to wash, rinse, and dry, busts out into genius hair at all the wrong moments, and gets in my eyes and ears. I forced myself to continue with grim determination until it dawned on me this week that every time I see someone with short hair I get all wistful, and Former Commodore Norrington meanders by and remarks, “Not too long ago I would have given anything to have you look like that while thinking of me,” or something to that effect.*** So screw this “long” business. I am going back to my crew cut, as soon as I can find a new hairdresser to add to my succession of Total Nuts With Scissors.

 

It will give me something to look forward to in the midst of all this emo.

 

 

*And JUST AFTER you bought a goddamn permanent account.

 

**No, don’t panic. This may turn out good if the clueless bastards running it now turn it over to some clueful people. But for those of you who like to play it safe, you can back up entries and comments with LJArchive, LJBook (currently this one is a bit swamped), or this program that they tell me works on Macs.

 

***Or he would, if I were Keira Knightly in PotC.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

Speaking of, LJ ate your code.

I feel the same way about long hair, and mine is just 'vaguely wavy'. Except I've accepted my hatred of long hair on me, and just chop it all off every two months to get it off my neck. (Well, a short bob isn't quite chopping it all off.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Crikey, did it EVER. (That was fast of you.)

No, no, I chop it all off. It's interesting how many people suddenly assume you're lesbian when you do that.

[beccastareyes]

Huh. Never tried to cut mine all off -- mainly because really short hair takes more haircuts to keep it looking presentable. Bobs are a bit more flexible if you forget to head in to get a trim.

But, if I had my dad's really curly hair, I might consider it. I like my hair short enough that running a brush through it doesn't make me cry, which was my original reason for cutting it when I was seven. (I had a sensitive scalp, and combing long hair was murder.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I make an effort not to make that assumption, but of course it's much easier when you have a big clue like knowing ahead of time. *grins* I do get the weird double-take when I see a woman with thin hair from a distance, my poor eyesight combines with it to make me think she's a guy, the reflexive checking out mechanism gets activated, and the realization of truth only comes afterwards, which is, I must admit, a bit confusing. n.n;

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

That should have been short hair, not thin. You can't edit comments with an unpaid account. u_u

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Dude I know what you mean about the long hair. Mine used to be as short as this icon would imply. It was that way from the time I was ten or so through high school and the first part of college. It was so easy to take care of. And somewhere along the line, I decided to start growing it out. It is shoulder length and I have NO CLUE what I'm doing with it; I just keep growing it in the vain hope that I'll have an idea someday. At least I can french braid it to keep it out of my face now, which was one disadvantage of the short hair when it started growing out...

Of course, people assumed I was a boy during Freshman and Sophomore year of high school, but I attribute that more to my manner of dress than anything else.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Also, NORRINGTON SQUEE.

Ahem.

And I got your package! The star fabric on the heating pad thing is SO PRETTY!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was worried I was sending packages into the void.

I know it's a weird gift, but the things are really nice when you're saving on heat. And they're so snuggly.

heh. My sister's a Norrington fan. She had to stop teasing me about my undying love for Hank McCoy when she admitted that. ;)

Well, there are advantages to long hair--at least you can play with it!

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Except there's only so much you can really do without extensive knowledge of how to use hair products, and it takes what seems like forever to dry.

On the plus side, if I go anywhere in this cold weather with wet hair, it freezes on the way to wherever I'm going and makes funny snapping noises when I bend pieces of it.

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I JUST bought a damned Perm Account, too.

I smell a conspiracy.

it is too cold out for a buzzcut

[renshai.livejournal.com]

: P after my adventures last year in long hair (fluffy blonde dustbunnies the size of cats, I tell you), I don't think I'm ever going to grow it out ever again.

Right now I'm just trying to decide if it's worth the effort to cut it before job interviews start - I'm at the stage of grown-out mohawk-ness that really makes you look like you should be working backstage at a metal concert, a look that is enhanced by the top two inches being a sort of washed-out electric green. I'm pretty sure it's unacceptable to wear a toque to job interviews....

Re: it is too cold out for a buzzcut

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at the moment I wouldn't hire my hair either.

Maybe I can sell it to the Hobbit producers so they can make a wig.

Edited because I forgot to add: I prefer buzzed hair in the cold, because it dries faster and then I can put a hat on.

Re: it is too cold out for a buzzcut

[renshai.livejournal.com]

See, I put the hat on while it's still wet, because that is the only way to avoid Bozo the Clown hair, which is what I get when my hair's longer than an inch and a half. Well, and not held up by Elmers Glue or something.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Backing up is always a good idea, but the panic is over-rated. I doubt LJ is going to go down, and if it does, it won't be all of a sudden.

My siblings both have hyper-curly hair that frizzes at the least provocation. And both of them wear it long, in ponytails. Though my brother uses a gel or something on it that makes it look much nicer than whatever my sister does with hers. But she looks so much better with it short! She's stubborn, though. And my brother's wife won't let him go through the growing out phase and wants him to keep it long. Unless there's a six figure job offer that require short hair. The growing out stages are pretty horrid, though. My brother and his red-headed afro.

Me, I got wavy hair with red highlights (but I dye it much redder!). It has no wave at all when short. I lucked out in the hair department.

There are evidently some products out there that tame hair like yours. But if you're looking at short haircuts wistfully, go for the short!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd been meaning to back up for a while anyway, and this just made the links extremely handy.

I've tried "product," and I quite frankly hate it. Never seems to work properly for me anyway.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I used gel for a while, but it turns out that putting just about anything in my hair causes my scalp to break out. There's no feeling quite like scratching your head and oozing.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the initial rumor of the layoff seriously inflated the number of employees affected. Basically, they've just consolidated a bit, so all design is done in Russia and administration is done in the USA (as opposed to having teams for both in both countries).

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I love long hair. I've had to cut mine a couple of times, and it's kind of cool, and I do look good with a shaved head, but I much prefer it long. Heck, even with the frizziness and the fact that my hairline has receded so far that it's actually on the back of my head, and parts back there are kind of skeezy because of it, still all for the long hair.

The growing out stage totally sucks, though. One of the super-powers that I always thought would be totally cool would just be control over my hair, able to make it long, short, straight, wavy, curly, different colours, whatever, on a whim. That would be soooo cool!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* You and my brother. He's got hair like mine but got it past the awkward phase. It's long and full and the same gorgeous brown.

On the other hand, I would still have to maintain mine, and screw that.

I remember making up a Mary Sue character when I was six who had that power. Among others.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

There is, in fact, a comics character with this power! Medusa, queen of the Inhumans.

[gondolinchick01.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you missed Gothmas, pobrecita, but if it's any consolation you weren't the only one. About half the people we invited ended up cancelling due to inclement weather or random laziness. The consequence of this is that we now have waaaaaaaay too much leftover food, so I demand that you come over at the next possible date for leftover bruschetta and tiramisu.

Also, I know how you feel on the hair note. I keep really wanting to just shave mine off but then I get scared that no one will hire someone who looks so disreputable, so I keep postponing it to the point that it's getting to mullet lengths.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, it certainly doesn't look hire-able right now. I think I will wear a series of classy hats if I ever land interviews.

[10cents.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's too bad--I was loving the way that it looked in the few Christmas photos that showed your hair. But, uh, obviously I'm a big proponent of long hair, and I always suggest that people should grow theirs out, so you REALLY shouldn't listen to me. I hope that your new/old short style makes you happy, because of course that's what really matters.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Food is indeed a good antidote to anxiety. Glad to know I'm not the only person who's found that out!

And... hey... someone else had my Gothmas idea already? Did they, too, get it after seeing the Xmas trees they sell at Borders made out of all-black tinsel for some bizarre reason?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

AHAHA my sister loved that tree--she called it the Emotree and wanted to buy it and decorate it with red garlands and razors.

gondolinchick01 has been doing Gothmas for years, but I'm not sure what it entails other than dressing up Goth. But really, what else does one need?