Last night, giving in to an impulse that visits me regularly, I dyed my hair.  And not with the kind of haircolor that gradually fades and washes out, the permanent kind, so it's an impulse I'll just be living with now, like a bad marriage.  Only scissors can separate me from my new Light Golden Brown hair.

Actually, it doesn't look terrible, really ( Read more... )

Short answer to the subject line: Georgia, Michigan

But you don't want the short answer, do you? And I can't leave it at that.

The state I'm in: 
I'm kind of not eating. Not full-blown anorexia, just a kind of temporary, trauma-induced, stomach-upset kind of not eating. And since I'm pear-shaped, having gained tons of weight years ago when I first ( Read more... )

I found this the other day, while going through all my garbage, readying to pack for my move to Kalamazoo.


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dream I just woke up exhausted from the following dream:

I’m driving around with a guy.  I know the guy.  It’s B ( Read more... )

My mom and my stepdad, who live (at least in theory) in Illinois, have been staying in their RV in an RV park in Pine Mountain, GA, for over a month. Mom has also come out to my house and stayed with me for two nonconsecutive weeks, which involved me sleeping on the sofa and not having very much in the way of privacy - and I'm a person who ( Read more... )

It's starting to rain. In 2007, it's raining. Thank God I'm here to comment on the weather.