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.)

[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.

[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....

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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?