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[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

[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).