Haircuts and personal image
Okay, I got a haircut today. I really needed it. I rarely think about my hair, honestly. It’s curly beyond anything I could ever do with it, so I don’t do anything. I towel dry it after my shower and it does what it does.
When I was twelve, I finally realized that if I didn’t wash my hair, people would notice (thanks 9th grade girl with the attitude for pointing that out to me in front of the whole bus, especially the cute girl I couldn’t work up the nerve to talk to yet. You rock.) But, I also realized that it was going to be a huge shrubbery no matter what I did.
It wasn’t until I was 19 that I actually got a short haircut. In high school, when I got out of the shower, I could reach around my back and grab my hair. It was a good distance below my collar. But, once it tried, poof, big and shrub like.
Now I try to keep it cut fairly short. I get lots of compliments on the curls, and even have people come up to me and ask if they can feel my hair. It’s a little strange.
It’s not until I can really tell it’s shrubbing again, that I remember to go get it cut. It’s usually longer than six weeks, and the women where I get my haircut think it’s funny. Did I also mention that my hair is fairly thick? It’s not uncommon for the other stylists to comment on just how much hair ends up on the floor when I’m done.
So, here’s a few pictures for those of you who are curious. Some of you asked, or I wouldn’t have even thought about this. 
On my way to get my haircut
Home from my haircut (thanks to my daughter)
New haircut (in my office after a shower)
I’m not a fan of my own picture. Reminds me how out-of-shape I still am. I want to know why writing doesn’t burn more calories? Totally not fair. Or coding, for that point. If I build a database with four terabytes of data, that should be worth an occasional soda or cupcake. Just saying.
But, as Dean Wesley Smith said so eloquently. “Fair’s in August.” Everything else is work and effort. Alas and alack.
More rowing machine, less sugar.
Maybe I’ll start posting more pictures. Doubtful, but it could happen.
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Comments
KathrynSeptember/10th/2011 1:59 pm
I think you should ask Tor to put that middle picture in your books
I too have pretty irritating hair. I get a corkscrew right in front of my right eye if it gets to a certain length and no matter how much I pull or brush it, it never ‘deboings’. Very annoying.
As for losing weight, I’m not an expert (I probably need to gain weight), but if you think you do then you’re already halfway there. Unless you have a medical problem, I’m sure that a bit of willpower will help you get where you want to be. If you have a doctor (I don’t know how medical care works in the US) or a dietician, then perhaps a visit to them will help you lose weight safely?
If you do try to trim down though, John, I wish you nothing but the best of luck with it.
Bruce ArthursSeptember/11th/2011 1:16 pm
I’ve finally had success in trimming down by installing a food-&-exercise tracker on my smart phone. Having that little icon on top of the screen every day, reminding me to watch what I eat and to do my workouts, has kept me on track for my pound-a-week plan for twenty weeks so far.
(As a phone, the smartphone — a Motorola Droid — is only mediocre. But boy, I love having those apps handy in a pocket-sized machine! It doesn’t hurt that the phone has more memory and processing power than my eight-year old desktop computer.)