So anyway…

I’ve only just noticed that the shared links posts are not posting. I don’t know why. I mucked around with some settings and I’m trying a different plugin now, so bear with me if stuff gets weird.

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I’m finding it weirdly satisfying to have next to no hair. When I take a shower, I just wash my head with the same soap I use to wash my face (I use goat’s milk soap, just for the record). My hair is very thick, and can take hours to dry, but now, it dries in minutes! I’m adjusting to the coolness on the scalp (no more sleeping with a knitted cap on!), and I must say, I find being able to get up and not worry if my hair looks like a haystack to be pretty cool.

I’m currently considering keeping my hair quite short (not buzzed off completely, but pretty short) and maybe dying it silvery blonde. Why? Well, why not. I don’t look great with blonde hair, generally speaking, because I’ve got pretty pale skin and I tend to wash out, but I think with quite short hair that was very pale, it might look all right. And if it doesn’t, well, I’ll just colour it something else (so what if I have tips that are way lighter than the rest, that’s super trendy!).

I’ve also acquired a wig, just to try it out. I’m not at all bothered by walking around with my head shaved (though today in the grocery store I think a lady thought I’d undergone chemotherapy because she was way over-apologising like mad for a very minor “bumping into” incident and had a kind of strange tone in her voice, but I may have been imagining that and she may always just be really apologetic). I do wear a hat when I go out because I don’t want to get a burn on my previously virgin scalp, but I take the hat off when I’m indoors.

However, the idea of wearing wigs has been one that has appealed to me for some time, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to indulge that whim. I now have a layered red wig, a bit longer than I traditionally wear my own hair, but the colour is just right and the wig is pretty comfortable. I’m probably going to get a couple more wigs, just because. It’s handy if you’re having a really bad hair day or if you just want to do something different for some special occasion, and what the heck. You can get good quality synthetic wigs for a very reasonable price these days, so I got one, and will probably get a few more.

Maybe I’ll eventually go back to my old pattern of hair style and colour, but maybe I’ll just do something weird like keep my hair quite short, dye it silvery blonde, and wear wigs when the desire strikes me. In any case, shaving my head really opened up interesting new ideas and thoughts for me, and I’m really glad I did it (totally aside from the fact that I raised some money for a really good charity).

Here’s a quick shot of my new wig. It’s still a little wirey and “wiggy” because it’s brand new and I haven’t really gotten it properly styled, but overall it’s not too bad.

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• Lá Fhéile Pádraig! Erin Go Bragh! Happy Festival of Saint Patrick. Green beer for everyone! #

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This is a thoughtful, interesting article, which I thought was neatly summarised in this line:

A change in technology has caused a law to extend into territory it was never designed to cover.

Go read the article, it’s got a great take on the whole Australian internet censorship battle.

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• The little mice are starting to show their age. They sleep a lot more these days, and aren't as keen on playing. They're middle aged mouses! #
• It's amazing to see my hair growing. When it's super short, you can actually kind of tell how much it's grown. Cool. #
• I'm taking a photo of myself every day and I will for a few weeks, to composite them all together in a video, to document my hair regrowth. #
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We went to dinner after the shave event, and Andrew took this picture of me with his phone (which is why it’s not the best quality). I was feeling SO unconventional that I had prime rib (beef) with chardonnay (white wine). Shocking! Having white wine with beef! See what happens when you shave your head? You start bucking all sorts of social conventions! (I wish I had a tongue-in-cheek icon.)

Anyway, here I am in all my totally unphotogenic glory.

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For interest, the works of art are:

1. Davinci, Last Supper
2. Boticelli, Birth of Venus
3. Rembrant, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp
4. Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII
5. Vermeer, Girl w/the Pearl Earring
6. Gericault, Raft of the Madusa
7. David, Death of Marat
8. Michelangelo, Creation of Adam
9. Magritte, Son of Man
10. Mondrian, Composition
11. Khalo, Self-Portrait
12. Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar
13. Munch, The Scream
14. Van Gogh, Self-Portrait
15. Warhol, Marylin Monroe
16. Unknown, Gabrielle Estrees and one of her sisters
17. Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned
18. Caravaggio, Salome w/the Head of John the Baptist
19. Manet, Olympia
20. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
21. Dix, Portriate of Journalist Sylvia von Harden
22. Klimt, Der Kiss
23. Chagall,The bride
24. Velazquez, Las Meninas
25. Van Gogh, Sunflowers

(I didn’t get all of them, but I got most of them )

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Silly me, I forgot the camera, so Andrew took these on his phone, hence the not-that-great quality.

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