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Feb. 10th, 2011 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cicerContinuing the theme of "stuff what I've been doin' this year"...
I chopped off all my hair! OK, not all of it. But it's super-short now. I usually keep my hair anywhere between chin length and shoulder length, which I guess it short by most people's standards. But I haaate the feeling of hair falling in my face, so no matter how short my hair was, I always pinned, braided, or otherwise tied it back. Eventually, I got the bright idea to just get a pixie-cut so I wouldn't have to go to the hassle of always scrounging around for a hair tie. (This became especially necessary once I started kickboxing classes, because vigorous jumping around made my hair fall down, no matter how snugly I tied it back.) But I'm kind of a weenie about change, so I put off getting my hair whacked off, until a good friend of mine got a pixie cut and looked utterly adorable. So I gathered up my courage, went to the hair salon last week, and just did it. And now, of course, I wish I'd done it months ago. So breezy and convenient! No hair falling in my face! I hardly need any shampoo or styling time! I love it. Short hair, woo!
Also, I kind of decided to do the "fifty books into fifty weeks" challenge thingummy. I haven't actually posted anything to the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge community yet, but I have been reading a book a week, and it's been great for me. I basically stopped reading for pleasure during my undergrad years, simply because I was always so pressed for time, and also because I was doing so much fiction-reading for my courses that reading anything else felt like doing extra work. It's weird, I feel like I'm rediscovering the joy of reading at this point! Anyhow, I'll probably want to draw up short summaries of what I'm reading, what I thought of each book, etc. I'll be posting all that to the comm, natch, but shall I crosspost them here as well? I guess what I'm asking it, would anybody be interested in reading that stuff? Anyone? Bueller?
I am currently dealing with the Revenge of the Son of the Bride of the Sinus Infections, part 2: Electric Boogaloo. I had about a year, a lovely year, when I had no sinus infections whatsoever. It was glorious. Now I'm back to the old pattern of three-to-four sinus infections per year. Ugh. It's ridiculous, because at this point, there's nothing the doctors can do, short of surgery. Which I do not want. The problem is entirely structural. My sinuses are arranged, um, badly. So they don't drain properly, mucus pools, bacteria flourishes, la la la. ...Sorry, I hope you weren't eating while you read this? Anyhow. Nothing to be done for it, except round after round of antibiotics, and a regimen of nasal rinses (which I hate), steaming my sinuses, loading up on Sudafed, slapping on a BreatheRight strip, etc. It's super sexy, let me tell you. Orz.
I hope you folks are feeling better than I am! Tell me how things are going for you right now! Are you having a good day? Inquiring minds want to know!
I chopped off all my hair! OK, not all of it. But it's super-short now. I usually keep my hair anywhere between chin length and shoulder length, which I guess it short by most people's standards. But I haaate the feeling of hair falling in my face, so no matter how short my hair was, I always pinned, braided, or otherwise tied it back. Eventually, I got the bright idea to just get a pixie-cut so I wouldn't have to go to the hassle of always scrounging around for a hair tie. (This became especially necessary once I started kickboxing classes, because vigorous jumping around made my hair fall down, no matter how snugly I tied it back.) But I'm kind of a weenie about change, so I put off getting my hair whacked off, until a good friend of mine got a pixie cut and looked utterly adorable. So I gathered up my courage, went to the hair salon last week, and just did it. And now, of course, I wish I'd done it months ago. So breezy and convenient! No hair falling in my face! I hardly need any shampoo or styling time! I love it. Short hair, woo!
Also, I kind of decided to do the "fifty books into fifty weeks" challenge thingummy. I haven't actually posted anything to the
50bookchallenge community yet, but I have been reading a book a week, and it's been great for me. I basically stopped reading for pleasure during my undergrad years, simply because I was always so pressed for time, and also because I was doing so much fiction-reading for my courses that reading anything else felt like doing extra work. It's weird, I feel like I'm rediscovering the joy of reading at this point! Anyhow, I'll probably want to draw up short summaries of what I'm reading, what I thought of each book, etc. I'll be posting all that to the comm, natch, but shall I crosspost them here as well? I guess what I'm asking it, would anybody be interested in reading that stuff? Anyone? Bueller?I am currently dealing with the Revenge of the Son of the Bride of the Sinus Infections, part 2: Electric Boogaloo. I had about a year, a lovely year, when I had no sinus infections whatsoever. It was glorious. Now I'm back to the old pattern of three-to-four sinus infections per year. Ugh. It's ridiculous, because at this point, there's nothing the doctors can do, short of surgery. Which I do not want. The problem is entirely structural. My sinuses are arranged, um, badly. So they don't drain properly, mucus pools, bacteria flourishes, la la la. ...Sorry, I hope you weren't eating while you read this? Anyhow. Nothing to be done for it, except round after round of antibiotics, and a regimen of nasal rinses (which I hate), steaming my sinuses, loading up on Sudafed, slapping on a BreatheRight strip, etc. It's super sexy, let me tell you. Orz.
I hope you folks are feeling better than I am! Tell me how things are going for you right now! Are you having a good day? Inquiring minds want to know!
