I think I've mentioned that I've been growing my hair out, so now it's about shoulder length. As such I'm re-learning what it's like to have long hair since I haven't had it since before I got my driver's license, just over six years. So I've forgotten some things.

Mainly, that it's on the curly side and thick, thicker than I remember. Case in point ( Read more... )

So I realized something a little while ago. Mainly that, for the first time since I got tossed headlong into adolescence by early puberty I'm actually pretty happy with my body. It's not 100% (though find me someone in our society who is 100% happy with theirs given all the negative messages we're always receiving and I'll sell you a bridge) but ( Read more... )

Right now we're reading Paradise Lost in my English class, and I am again reminded of how many problems I have with the Adam and Eve story ( Read more... )

I have an FM receiver in my MP3 player, and as I was walking home an ad came up for a weight loss thing. But here's the thing: It was for men, but it was marketed to the guys' women, something to the effect of "get your man back in healthy shape by making this call for him ( Read more... )

Why these girls go to school without makeupI'm not sure I can quite articulate my reaction to this, since my reaction was pretty inarticulate and mostly consisted "So they... and people care... what ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm actually wearing a skirt. And no, nobody forced me to do it ( Read more... )

I've seen two icky t-shirts as I was walking around Boston in the last few days ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to take these tonight, but one benefit of the crappy quality of the webcam is that it hides the big bags under my eyes from a week off too little sleep, too much stress and allergies. D ( Read more... )

So they have these vitamin supplement ads targeted at men that have examples of "all the things meant just for men" that include football player bobble heads (stupid) boxers (also stupid since I know girls who wear them) and duct tape.

Really commercial, really? Clearly they've never had to tape their boobs down to serve as an impromptu bra or do ( Read more... )

Have a random commercial that I saw last night. It made my jaw drop.

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Sadly enough, the thing that struck me most is that the guy's headphones are turned up way too loud. As in, if they're that loud you're probably giving yourself hearing loss. I do the "if you can hear anything when you hold them at arm's length it's too loud" rule with mine, ( Read more... )