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Feb. 28th, 2004
Click here. The picture at the top was taken once years ago when I was in a sort of va-va-va-voom mood at Minicon. The shoulder length hair is what I'm thinking about. Not bad, no?
The five below it are pretty much what I look like now (although the hair is even longer, and I wear smaller glasses):
I think I'm leaning toward something like the shoulder length cut. Just for something different, to see how I like it for a time. Long enough to pull up/back, (and long enough to be still be considered "long") but still a change. And I can always grow it out again if I don't like it.
The five below it are pretty much what I look like now (although the hair is even longer, and I wear smaller glasses):
I think I'm leaning toward something like the shoulder length cut. Just for something different, to see how I like it for a time. Long enough to pull up/back, (and long enough to be still be considered "long") but still a change. And I can always grow it out again if I don't like it.
Books for February, 2004
Feb. 28th, 2004 12:40 pmDeath Trance by R.D. Zimmerman. This the first one of his books that I didn't really like. The gimmick is that the detective is a psychologist, a woman who is blind and in a wheelchair, who works with her brother, who does the physical investigation. She works by guiding her brother through hypnotic trances (it's her brother's ex-girlfriend who is the murder victim). The relationship between the siblings just sort of struck me as odd, weirdly emmeshed. The set up seemed a tad gimmicky, too. Eh. Don't think I'll pick up the next ones in the series. I like his gay television investigative reporter series, the one that starts with Closet.
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough (whose better known as author of The Thorn Birds). Re-read. Kij sent this to me as a comfort book, and it's great for that. Poor, scrappy heroine gets to give her snooty relatives their comeuppance. Fun escapist fluff.
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson (husband, btw, of Robin McKinley). This recently won a Mythopoeic Award, for chidren's lit, I think. Um. Yeah. Pretty good. Sorta interesting. Some very familiar trope in it: girl heroine leaves home because home is threatened; she thinks she has no magic, unlike her family, when actually she has the greatest magic of all. I'm not sure I'll be in any hurry to read it again, but it wasn't a complete waste of time.
Am now re-reading Mansfield Park, so that will be on next month's list.
List is short, yes. (I've been reading an enormous amount of unpublished stuff.)
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough (whose better known as author of The Thorn Birds). Re-read. Kij sent this to me as a comfort book, and it's great for that. Poor, scrappy heroine gets to give her snooty relatives their comeuppance. Fun escapist fluff.
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson (husband, btw, of Robin McKinley). This recently won a Mythopoeic Award, for chidren's lit, I think. Um. Yeah. Pretty good. Sorta interesting. Some very familiar trope in it: girl heroine leaves home because home is threatened; she thinks she has no magic, unlike her family, when actually she has the greatest magic of all. I'm not sure I'll be in any hurry to read it again, but it wasn't a complete waste of time.
Am now re-reading Mansfield Park, so that will be on next month's list.
List is short, yes. (I've been reading an enormous amount of unpublished stuff.)
Gulp . . . I did it!
Feb. 28th, 2004 04:34 pmMy hair is now chin length.
I figured, as long as I was going to cut it, why not donate it to Locks of Love? And since the cut had to be at least ten inches long . . . well, I went for it.
Am not quite sure what I think. The girls had theirs cut, too, and I like the shape of theirs a bit better. Mine is longer in the front (the stylist called it an "A" line) but I think it draws a bit too much to my jowliness. I might wait a day or two and have it shortened, more like the girls. I might also add some highlights, too, as long as I'm being experimental. The girls look cute as buttons; Fiona in particular had very damaged hair and it looks much better.
I figured, as long as I was going to cut it, why not donate it to Locks of Love? And since the cut had to be at least ten inches long . . . well, I went for it.
Am not quite sure what I think. The girls had theirs cut, too, and I like the shape of theirs a bit better. Mine is longer in the front (the stylist called it an "A" line) but I think it draws a bit too much to my jowliness. I might wait a day or two and have it shortened, more like the girls. I might also add some highlights, too, as long as I'm being experimental. The girls look cute as buttons; Fiona in particular had very damaged hair and it looks much better.