I have been going to Arisia for I believe 6 years, and for the last few I have looked forward specifically to the opportunity to put my hair in the capable hands of blk, aka SpicyBraids. I like the ability to hand her a wad of money and say, "Please make my hair look awesome," and she does ( Read more... )

I was fascinating to a couple of kids on the T this morning. I get on at Porter, and they got on at Harvard with their mother. I had Dog, my netbook, open. The boy, perhaps about nine, pointed and said, "Look mommy! Her laptop is neat!" The mother agreed. This got the girl's attention. She was perhaps six. She whispered something to her ( Read more... )

This was an amazing Arisia ( Read more... )

So as I twittered this morning, "I am amazingly happy with my hair these days." Gotta give props to the Lush shampoo bar I've been using; it certainly does the trick. So in a fit of narcissistic hair-playing this morning, I gave myself yet another five-strand Dutch braid, which slammerkinbabe later commented on unprompted. SCORE ( Read more... )