Easily distracted by shiny things.

[romanticalgirl]

I currently sound like I've been smoking for 80 years. Also, I am apparently giving up lungs for lent. Or would be if I was Catholic. As it is, I'm just giving them up because they apparently don't work and are trying to exit my body through a coughing strategy

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[anoneknewmoose]

TBH I wouldn't expect anyone's hair to hold produce.

(♥)

[romanticalgirl]

Hey, it might look stylish with some shredded lettuce. Heee. Also, Ray's hair would TOTALLY hold produce.

[anoneknewmoose]

TOUCHE.

[elfinobsession]

[romanticalgirl]

I have that film on my Netflix list. I saw a review of it in an old Entertainment Weekly, so I have to check it out.

I definitely want to go to the Anne Frank House. I think that's one of the sad things about living in America is that those huge reminders of what has gone before aren't there, aren't *real* in a lot of ways because we can't see it right in front of us. Of course, maybe it's the case that sometimes you don't see what's right in front of you too. Hmmm.

[draconic_girl]

I've visited (think it was spring 2005): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck. And on that same journey we also visited Kraków (saw the Jewish ghetto area)and then the the Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin as well as the Wannsee Villa

[romanticalgirl]

This is exactly what I want, and what I wanted at the Holocaust museum. Instead it was kind of overwhelming in all the wrong ways - lots of information about the hows and whys and wherefores, but the human element of it was missing in so many ways. I learned a lot, but I didn't *feel* it the way I wanted to, and I'm the easiest person in the world to make cry about stuff - I cry at the old AT&T and Hallmark commercials, you know?

Maybe it was just that so much of it in the museum was visual - pictures and TVs and things to read. The only place that really hit me was when we walked into a room that was filled with all these old shoes, and you could smell the leather and it just *hit* you how real it all was. There were a couple other times that I got that feeling, but that was the strongest one.

[mistresscurvy]

When I was in Germany in 2006 I went to the Jewish Museum Berlin, which was just as haunting and devastating as I feel like it should be, showing what the lives of Jews in Germany and all throughout Europe were like prior to the 1930s, and what happened to them.

Also, it feels unlike any other building I've ever been in -- the museum was specifically designed to feel off-kilter, and it adds so much to the experience. It's disturbing and left me with such a profound sense of Not Right.

I would worry less about what the haircut will make your head look like size-wise and more just on whether your face will look good with a pixie cut -- if it will, I say go for it. Disclaimer: I know practically nothing about hair.

[romanticalgirl]

Oh, that sounds like an awesome place to visit, if awesome is the right word. I think stuff like that should leave you feeling like things aren't right, like a huge *wrong* is still out there in the universe, waiting to be balanced. I don't know. It seems so astronomical, the numbers and the sheer everything of the Holocaust, and yet it happened and people sat by and watched it. Turned a blind eye. I don't know. It's so strange.

Every time I go to the hair-people, I say 'Make me look cute!'. Sadly, they do but they do it in a way that requires time, product and a desire to be cute instead of sleeping in until the last possible second.