Another hair-dyeing visit to my stylist, another round of shaking things up with the color. Behold! (Photo taken by my stylist in reasonably bright light; the hair still looks darkish in dim light.) She did my roots and a bunch of new foils, and it all involved more tweaking and subtle messing around than previous visits. She didn't add dye to most ( Read more... )

--Seeing so many people making intro/info posts reminded me for the first time in ages that I don't have a public one. I should probably fix that.

--To go along with yesterday's extensions on professional stuff,
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I guess I was getting a bit cocky about feeling like I was staying on top of not-work things for the first couple weeks of Casual Job (enabled by the fact that the hours haven't been ridiculous), but sometime in the last 48 hours or so my tabs have exploded a little. (The me of not that many months ago laughs heartily at this number of tabs ( Read more... )

To summarize what I said on Twitter while posting the pic there, Kas came over after work and took a bunch of pics of me (I'm hoping to use one as an actual up-to-date profile pic in places like Twitter and Facebook, where my profile pics are at least seven years old), but I don't have them yet, so I caved and took a selfie.

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--It is way too humid. Not horribly hot, fortunately, but the humidity can GTFO any time now. Maybe tomorrow will be better on that front ( Read more... )

--Aaargh, the itching/flaking nastiness has started with the tattoo. Not too badly yet, but I keep being scared that it'll itch badly overnight and I'll scratch it in my sleep ( Read more... )

I did get my hair cut on Thursday, and I feel so much better now. Alas, Melissa-my-stylist now thinks, having done this cut, that we should wait until the next full cut before looking at putting dye in. The remnants of red are so close to gone...! I trust her judgment, of course, because she's marvelous, but I also really want to get on with it ( Read more... )

--My hair has started driving me up the wall, so it's just as well I've got a cut booked for next Wednesday. (The day before I go back to the office. Last minute? What?) I'm about 95% sure I'll still have some residual red dye left after this cut, but maybe the next one will be enough to get rid of it, freeing me up to get my stylist to try oil ( Read more... )

I can't say I feel well rested, but today I got up within a reasonable time of my alarm going off, which is a first for the week. (Alarm at 10:15, up by 10:40, including reading overnight emails and checking Twitter.) By noon I'd had tea and breakfast, read the paper, scooped the litterbox, and put laundry in, so even without having started work ( Read more... )

1) Even though I've been watching Elementary significantly longer than The 100, I'm now so much more aware of Thursday being The 100 night (thanks to Twitter) that I keep being vaguely startled to see that oh, yes, there's something else I'll want to catch up on too ( Read more... )