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[rm]

Because I am attending a formal event tomorrow, I went and just got my eyebrows and lip waxed for the first time in ages. What surprised me was how much it hurt, and how much I couldn't channel my discomfort into any one of a dozen narratives I usually find helpful in these circumstances. It's been a long time since I was the girl who got regular Brazilian waxes, that's for sure.

Generally, I am lame about this facial waxing thing anyway. My eyebrows are pretty good naturally, and I always worry that people will take too much off. I've gotten the hang of that now, I just tell them I want eyebrows like the soap opera villain women -- it saves me from them taking too much off and making me look eternally surprised and stupid.

As to the lip -- largely, I have stopped caring, which is, of course, a mortal sin. My lip was the great trauma of my childhood from sitting in teh waiting room when my mom went to get electrolysis to constant terror that I might be mistaken for a boy (which I was, often). The makeup people on set always yell at me about it - explaining to me how I am ugly, how no one will hire me (gee, really? that rarely ses to be the problem), how they hope I'm not like that _awful_ newscaster woman they worked for oncewho liked the fine hair on her upper lip. It's always uncomfortable and I always get both wrathful and avoidant.

But, now it's gone and I'm swollen as hell. I should also note that reading the Kushiel books makes me feel less like a girl for going and having ridiculous grooming done (and it is ridiculous to pay someone to rip hair out of your body that you can barely see and no one sane carea about). Only I could feel more masculine with long hair and a good waxer.

Anyway, I've had beef bahn hoi for dinner and now I'm in the for the night to work on my book while Patty goes to see her mammoth movie.

Meanwhile, I am finding the election situation increasingly horrifying. Obama's people keep putting their feet in it; Clinton's a liar and John McCain is a weasel. Also, I don't care how many world leaders Clinton met as first lady -- being someone's wife is not a job qualification. Similarly, I have a hard time drawing a line between McCain having been a POW and supporting Bush's crappy pointless war and being the candidate who can keep us safe.

I _always_ vote, but I have to tell you, I worry about my willingness to cast a vote this November if it's Clinton vs. McCain.

Comments

[spiralflames.livejournal.com]

mmhmm. there was a comment i read in today's paper that asked, in a clinton white house, if The Phone rings at 3 AM with some crisis, who do you think they'll REALLY want to talk to?

sigh.

[spiralflames.livejournal.com]

and i'm tired of her casting herself as a feminist..who the HELL thinks any basic woman can move to NY and become senator without any other experience? hellOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

My mother has an adrenal problem and has facial hair, and I grew up with having my face examined for it to see if I might have the same disorder. I was not hairless and there was a faint shadow on my lip in certain lights because I have nearly black hair otherwise and how many people are blessed with completely colorless body hair? She suffered through electrolysis and still had to shave every day.

The choices I've made about my body have seemed somewhat ironic to me, after all of that.

All the same, my face is extremely sensitive, and shaving it hurts - even with the grain, after soaking, every different kind of cream and so forth, exfoliating before, etc. Pulling my hair out is an agony I can't even begin to go into. If my eyebrows grow together, so be it.

[jaspamaster.livejournal.com]

Actually I think Clinton has a lot more credentials that Mcain does in that area. Plus lets get real being an ex ex pow really doesn't qualify you as much other than do we really want a pilot who got himself shot down as a leader. yeah that was mean but the rat has so sold himself to the republican insanity i wouldn't care if Hillary was a total crook i would still vote for her.

[christinenorris.livejournal.com]

Yanno, I was thinking about you last night, going to recommend a book to you, but thought no, it's a children's book, she might not want to read it.

Then you said "that I might be mistaken for a boy (which I was often)". And now you have to get this book.

"Alex and the Ironic Gentleman" by Adrienne Kress (who's a friend of mine) It's got a bit of a Roald Dahl feel to it. Alex of the title is a girl who is often mistaken for a boy.

And there's fencing. Which is why I thought you might like it in the first place.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It has the best title EVER. I will totall read that, eventhough you are right, I am not actually a YA lit sort of person.

[christinenorris.livejournal.com]

It IS a good title, better than the UK one, which I think was something like Alex and the Wigpowder Adventure.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Whoah. I just found that book not one hour ago in a church thrift store and contemplated buying it, but wound up putting it back down. Did I make a mistake?

[christinenorris.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. I mean, if you like stories for middle graders that border on the silly but are really fun and include pirates, fencing and adventure...then yes.

[saltbox.livejournal.com]

Plucking it yourself hurts less than waxing, I think. Not that I've gotten waxed. But I do my own plucking and it doesn't really hurt at all. (Though the pain, or lack thereof, is not why I do it myself. Mostly it's that I'm cheap. I cut my own hair, too.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I cut my own hair too a lot of the time. And usually I do pluck myself, but every 6 months to a year or so I wax it just to have the guide lines again.

[genders.livejournal.com]

I'm in the middle of having my lip and chin electrolysed; I go about once a month, I've had six treatments, and it's pretty well gone. I figure the cost is less than a lifetime of waxes.

Sheesh. I remember before the Brazilians, when you removed no body hair at all (I think).

[sethg]

I have a lot of objections to Clinton, including the fact that she seems more enthusiastic about running hard against fellow Democrats than against Republicans, but if she gets the nomination, I'll walk through fire to vote for her. There will be other primaries to give us the opportunity to clear the Republican-lite faction out of the party.

And the odds of her getting the nomination still seem remote to me. With her current deficit in pledged delegates, Clinton not only has to win primaries, but win them with a large enough margin to make up for all her previous losses...and all the losses she's likely to see in the future. (She's not going to take Mississippi, for example.)

Obviously Obama has to figure out how to deflect Clinton's attacks, but if he's nominated he'll have to figure out how to deflect McCain's attacks in the general election, so it's just as well that he get the practice now.

[asa-dachi.livejournal.com]

I worry about my willingness to cast a vote this November if it's Clinton vs. McCain.

I feel ya' there.

Yes,I'm trawling your older posts,because you are smart as Hell,and you can write like holy fuck!

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

If I were a citizen in residence in the U.S., I would have( and have had) no idea how to vote:Senator Crazy Pants, Senator Narrow Necked Bottle, and Senator Lies Like Reagan.
Not a clue. Painfully aware of the fact that my U.S. friends and neighbours have some ludicrously Procrustean decisions to make, coming at them with Acme Co anvil like speed. :(