The Stars Were All Aligned
I permed my hair.
It's probably the third perm I've had my entire life. But it was time for a change. My hair's naturally board straight and has difficulties doing anything besides that. Which makes for a lot of product and a lot of time every morning trying to get it to do something else. Board straight is not a good look for me. Perms are a lot easier to deal with in the morning and Hubby wanted to see what my hair looked like curly. So far so good.
When I was in high school sometimes I wore my hair in ringlets. One day we had an assignment in English class to go around the room and write down what we thought each person in the class was "most likely to be." I was voted "most likely to be the next Shirley Temple." I could sing, I could dance, I was little, and I had the hair. That pretty much stopped the curly look for me until last night. "On the good ship Lollipop..."
I also started my summer classes yesterday. I'm excited for the things I'll learn in the classes I'm taking but I have a feeling this semester is going to kick my butt. I have a ton of reading for all three classes and several long, hard papers for each class. What was I thinking? Especially Cultural Anthropology. Our first assignment is to go to a place (as a fly on the wall) that's culturally outside our comfort zone 5 times for an hour each and observe the goings on as an anthropologist and write a 3-5 page paper about it. Some of the suggested places were gay culture, strip club, tattoo parlor, bar, sporting event, worship services, Pioneer Park, Wild Oats Market. And we have to go by ourselves. My dilemma is that most of this stuff doesn't make me uncomfortable and the ones that do, there is no way in Hell I'm going by myself. I've thought about maybe a homeless shelter or a nursing home. Outside my comfort zone but fairly safe and culturally different. I'll let you know what I decide (suggestions are welcome) and maybe I'll report my findings on here. It's due in about 3 weeks. Pretty tricky but I'm always one to rise to a challenge rather than transfer out of the class:)
My other dilemma is for my English class. We're each supposed to bring in a piece of music and the class is going to listen to each one and do a review of each piece. I take my music very seriously. You can learn a lot about a person by the kind of music they listen to. What do I want my piece of music to say about me? Do I want to take some contemporary and popular pop/rock/alternative or would that say I'm boring and only listen to the latest stuff on the radio and really have no taste? (Speaking of, Radio People: can you please stop playing Simple Plan on my radio? I recognize that this is their way of expressing feelings of being misunderstood and they're music's really catchy but really, they're just a bunch of whiners. Welcome to life! We all feel cheated and misunderstood and life done did us wrong. Get over it! Don't tell me I don't understand. We've all been there, done that. It's a part of growing up. We DO know how you feel.) Do I want to take classical or jazz and show a more well-balanced musical side? Or would I just look like a snob? I don't know about taking some of my more favorite music. The songs I like best speak to me personally and I don't know if I want the class to read that much into my personal life. Or am I really just making too much out of this and nobody but me reads into the type of music a person listens to?
It's probably the third perm I've had my entire life. But it was time for a change. My hair's naturally board straight and has difficulties doing anything besides that. Which makes for a lot of product and a lot of time every morning trying to get it to do something else. Board straight is not a good look for me. Perms are a lot easier to deal with in the morning and Hubby wanted to see what my hair looked like curly. So far so good.
When I was in high school sometimes I wore my hair in ringlets. One day we had an assignment in English class to go around the room and write down what we thought each person in the class was "most likely to be." I was voted "most likely to be the next Shirley Temple." I could sing, I could dance, I was little, and I had the hair. That pretty much stopped the curly look for me until last night. "On the good ship Lollipop..."
I also started my summer classes yesterday. I'm excited for the things I'll learn in the classes I'm taking but I have a feeling this semester is going to kick my butt. I have a ton of reading for all three classes and several long, hard papers for each class. What was I thinking? Especially Cultural Anthropology. Our first assignment is to go to a place (as a fly on the wall) that's culturally outside our comfort zone 5 times for an hour each and observe the goings on as an anthropologist and write a 3-5 page paper about it. Some of the suggested places were gay culture, strip club, tattoo parlor, bar, sporting event, worship services, Pioneer Park, Wild Oats Market. And we have to go by ourselves. My dilemma is that most of this stuff doesn't make me uncomfortable and the ones that do, there is no way in Hell I'm going by myself. I've thought about maybe a homeless shelter or a nursing home. Outside my comfort zone but fairly safe and culturally different. I'll let you know what I decide (suggestions are welcome) and maybe I'll report my findings on here. It's due in about 3 weeks. Pretty tricky but I'm always one to rise to a challenge rather than transfer out of the class:)
My other dilemma is for my English class. We're each supposed to bring in a piece of music and the class is going to listen to each one and do a review of each piece. I take my music very seriously. You can learn a lot about a person by the kind of music they listen to. What do I want my piece of music to say about me? Do I want to take some contemporary and popular pop/rock/alternative or would that say I'm boring and only listen to the latest stuff on the radio and really have no taste? (Speaking of, Radio People: can you please stop playing Simple Plan on my radio? I recognize that this is their way of expressing feelings of being misunderstood and they're music's really catchy but really, they're just a bunch of whiners. Welcome to life! We all feel cheated and misunderstood and life done did us wrong. Get over it! Don't tell me I don't understand. We've all been there, done that. It's a part of growing up. We DO know how you feel.) Do I want to take classical or jazz and show a more well-balanced musical side? Or would I just look like a snob? I don't know about taking some of my more favorite music. The songs I like best speak to me personally and I don't know if I want the class to read that much into my personal life. Or am I really just making too much out of this and nobody but me reads into the type of music a person listens to?
posted by Heidi @ 1:06 PM
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