Good Hair

Recently, I have been bemoaning the fact that, although I desperately need a haircut, I find it ridiculous that it costs upwards of $70-90 to get a good one in this city. I have been refusing to get an expensive haircut, not only for the principle of the matter, but more importantly, because I am way too seriously broke to buy a rockstar haircut.

Do I want to eat, or do I want to look fabulous? Generally, the answer is food, of course. I'm partial to it. It's tasty.

That said, today, despite this heart-felt conviction, I might have found something that has convinced me maybe sustenance isn't all that important, and that a good haircut could be worth every penny of the $70 I am about to spend on it this weekend.

What did I find? Feast your eyes on this.

Oh yes. Both photos are of me. In the one on the left, my cute childhood cheeks are all but lost in the hideously distracting SpongeBert SquareHead haircut, which my mother gave me in 1977. (I was her first child. She practiced on me until my brother looked like a prince.) In the photo on the right, I have prim bangs and sweet, little blue barrettes to match my dress. I could have been in a cereal commercial with that haircut!

The moral of the story is:
Good hair is worth eating nothing but Ramen Noodles for weeks.

Hot Digital Action Meets My PDC Years

The digital revolution makes taking photos so much easier! I routinely go to Golden Gate Park, take 25 photos of a tree, choose the best one, and everyone thinks I'm a photographic genius. This is the upside.

The downside is that my now antiquated photo albums are begging to be included in the Hot Digital Action (HDA). I have many photo albums dating back to when I was 16 years old. That, my friends, is half my life ago. This has me rubbing my chin thoughtfully and asking myself, "Why not let my photo albums in on this HDA? I could digitize all of my photos back to childhood, therefore ensuring their viability far into the future!"

The answer to this, of course, is that it's extremely time consuming. My butt will hurt from sitting in my chair for so long, my head will ache from staring at my computer screen, and my wrists will become immobile due to carpal tunnel syndrom as I PhotoShop each scanned page of multiple photos back into single photos.

So, I find myself locked in a battle of wits with my one dozen photo albums as I write this. I have started with the most recent album, dated 2003. These were my Pre-Digital Camera (PDC) years. And I was right. My butt is totally numb after only two hours of this task. I have noticed, however, that the beauty of this enormous black hole on my free time is that I get to rediscover photos I haven't seen since I put them in the prehistoric photo album over three years ago. Here's one. Look for more in the coming months on my photo page.

February 2003: Claire and the Parrots at the SF Zoo

Gay Schmay

Ha ha ha! My thoughts exactly. I love Wisconsin.

As reported by the New York Times: "All over the country, married heterosexual couples are shaking their heads and wondering how exactly the prospect of gay marriage threatens the health of their marriages," said Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin.