sundries

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- Sick passenger on train. An hour twenty with fencing bag on my back. Bad.

- Gorgeous day here.

- Kali finally got to the Face of Boe stuff. Excellent!

- The Albanian virgins living as men: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/world/europe/25virgins.html
Yes, I know. I've gotten it from five of you already, which is pretty rad.

- my Free Will Astrology (also sent by several of you).
Yes, I know. I sure like fighting, eh? I always giggle at the wrong parts.

- People will NEVER stop surprising me.

- I am oddly right with the world.

ETA:

- Well I was oddly right with the world until I was given a task at work that makes me challenge any assumptions of my intelligence I've ever had. Seriously, I have never felt this way before and I don't like it. I'm the brain, not the physical person. Er, I'm thinking, not so much. Why am I always the last to notice?

- sam_storyteller brings us sweet, epistolary Jack/Ianto time-travel paradox fic.

http://sam-storyteller.livejournal.com/134184.html

I LOVE THIS FIC, largely, because so much of my life with Patty involves letter writing and in a month will probably involve pausing in the doorway on my way home to read something she's writing me right now that I won't receive until she's back and it doesn't matter except it does. So yeah.

Also, there's a line that guts me. If you're really bored, see if you can find it.

- My braces are here. They are perfect. The world is now slightly shinier.

- Hey, have I mentioned how excited I am for this weekend? All time-traveling all the time. Friday night and Saturday day is 1940s, Saturday night and Sunday day is Regency. And it's Pride weekend?!?!? Ha. Love my fucking life. Wish Patty were home.

- My hair. What the fuck am I going to do with my hair this weekend? Cutting it is not an option for at least a while because of other obligations. Similarly, I should note that I feel EXTREMELY uncomfortable wearing a hat indoors when I'm dressed as a man (I may be crazy, but I was raised well). And it's not even remotely an option for the Regency event.

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[marchek.livejournal.com]

My hair. What the fuck am I going to do with my hair this weekend?.

Is a wig out of the question?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Not for Regency. As the one I have is reasonably appropriate. However, there will be Commentary from the People We Dance with, and I imagine I am Not in the Mood.

I'm much more verklempt about Friday in truth.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

For Friday what about creating a deep side part and using lots of product to get that period greased down look and just gatering the rest of hair at the nape of your neck. As uncomfortable as it would be, tucking your hair into the back of your shirt collar might give you the desired effect as well.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You are right on both counts and have just solved my OTHER dilemma, which was whether to cut fencing, which I not think I shall so everyone can laugh at me and hair product as I try to sort this out at your place.

[tdanaher.livejournal.com]

My hair. What the fuck am I going to do with my hair this weekend? Cutting it is not an option for at least a while because of other obligations. Similarly, I should note that I feel EXTREMELY uncomfortable wearing a hat indoors when I'm dressed as a man (I may be crazy, but I was raised well). And it's not even remotely an option for the Regency event.

For the 1940's events, no problem! Just wear it long, like some actually did then. Newspaperarchive.com to the rescue, from the Daily Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine, dated May 21st, 1946, by Richard Kendall.

I have been wearing an off the face hairdo for, lo, these many years, but in my youth I looked with horror on any male whose front hair could not be drawn down across his nose. Now my hair has receded to the back of my neck, but time was when I could give my head a backward flip and toss my mane from my chin to my collar.

One of our High School English teachers was lecturing on the poet Byron, one pleasant spring afternoon, and she paused and looked around at the boys in the class.

"Many of our boys," she said, "seem to be copying the appearance of Lord Byron. I refer to the long hair and the lack of neckties."

Of course, that wasn't it at all. We never heard of Byron until she talked about him, and she had sprung a quiz on us before her lecture most of us would have guessed that he played second base for one of the minor league ball clubs, and that he invariably forgot to touch second base.

I don't know what prompted the long hair fashion of that day. Perhaps the barbers had something to do with it. Certainly we didn't get it from the movies, because the leading characters of the day wore their hair under a thick coating of shellac of a similar shiny substance.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I don't know which one got you, but the one that got me was:

You should be home by now, and I think I came home with you. Get off the computer and go comfort me.

And all the little "I miss you while watching you eat a sandwich" oddities are just delicious. We should make Sam a batch of brownies or something. He's just too good.

[rm.livejournal.com]

For me it was Sometimes what we think is failure is exactly what our partner was looking for.

In fact pretty much the gist of that entire speech. I'd be a liar if I didn't say that nearly the entirety of my conscious life up until the last couple of years and perhaps just the last six months and perhaps even right this second hasn't been about me a) figuring that out and b) figuring out that most people don't speak as narratively as I do or as fictional people do and the only person who was going to be there to give me that speech was my damn self.

*sigh*, I've got about 30 days left 'til Patty comes home and my life syncs back up.

[john-h-holliday.livejournal.com]

What I have done when I can't get my hair to work otherwise is to brush it all straight back from my forehead and behind my ears. That seems to work whatever the length and works with or without a hat. If your hair is long enough you can tie it at the back with a ribbon. This is all right for most time periods, and tends to hide the length, even if your hair is very long, or curly.

[rm.livejournal.com]

If my hair was longer I'd be angst-free. It's just at that horrible middle length that isn't plausible for anything and it's starting to look triangular besides. I think a whole lot of product is going to be the answer. Hopefuly I will manage to make it look cool.