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Kushiel's Dart -- Page 356. My two favourite characters have been murdered. I assume I will decide to care about the book again, but right now, I'm just reading along going, "What? What?!? NO!" Grrrr.

I'm groggy as hell this morning, no idea why.

Feeling vague dread about fencing as the exercises from Monday have made my tendons utterly ache. This is a good thing, but being reminded of the battle of my non-flexibility is always sad, especially because I feel like it's always assumed this couldn't posibbly be a battle. I'm sure once I'm conscious, this will pass. At least I get to go to Babycakes tonight.

So I've been, as I think I noted in passing, listening to the newer Scissor Sisters album again, and there are a few songs I skip because I don't like them that much when I lsiten to it, so WHY ARE THEY THE ONES ALWAYS STUCK IN MY HEAD? In the world of "shuffle is the bibliomancy of the new age" this concerns me.

I really need a haircut. My hair is a shapeless mass right now, but losing length from it, or too much length will make me unhappy. When I was younger I wore my hair long because this was how to be feminine or whatever. and then i hacked it all off because it was an utter pain to deal with and I look ridiculously cute with very short hair (and weirdly, much, much more feminine). Then it started getting longer out of laziness. Last time I cut it, I had a friend do it in teh summer, as I was in extremis, and it was my own damn fault, but it was too short. ow it's at this length whre I hate how it looks, but it's utterly a function of my fictional worlds -- e.g., this is how its done in the worlds in my head (I'm so tired I almost just wrote "in the heads in my world"). Seriously though, I should probably go before the barn dance tomorrow or something and get the dead ends cut off it and see if it can be given a little shape without it escaping from ribbons. Or, I should jus deign to have it be too short again, knowing it will be what I want-ish by the time of the conference in May. I can't believe that I'm (still) talking about my hair. Proof we never get over some things.

ETA: leopard_lady provides a partial answer: French braid! only, I don't know how.

Comments

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

French braid is a lot like that twisting the sides thing you do, you just interweave the sides as you go. Back and forth and back and forth, grabbing more hair each time.

Which songs are stuck?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Might tell you tonight or whatever it's called. I think we can chalk that up to some form of NOT GOOD.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

For one braid:

start at more or less the center of the top of your head. gather a handful or so of your hair. Separate the handful into three bunches. Cross the left bunch over the center, and then the right over the left. Holding the three separate bunches between your fingers, add scoop up some additional hair with your free hand and add it to the bunch on the left, and then do the same to the bunch on your right. Cross left over right and then right over left. Add more hair. Continue until you run out of hair.

For two braids, as above, only part your hair as if about to attempt pigtails, and start the braid at your temples and work down.

[rm.livejournal.com]

OH I get how it works, I just don't possess teh dexterity.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

I think it's funny that you and I both are look way more feminine with short hair. Courtier's bow, anyone?
Mine is at much the same stage right now, with the added aggravation of layers in the front.
I've been contemplating the french braid myself lately, since it would solve that problem, but it was what all the horrid snotty girls wore at horse camp, and I'm not sure I want to invoke that in my own mind.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I actually had teh same horse camp fear. Never with a skirt, I've decided, but it's moot as I can't seem to do it.

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

I was profoundly gutted when the boy died.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It is funny to me that now one of my most beloved characters in fiction and one of my most loathed are both named Alcuin.

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

What was the other in?

I'd never heard the name before.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Alcuin is Alec's deeply, deeply unpleasant lover in The Privilege of the Sword

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I got through all three books despite being seriously, seriously annoyed at their loss, mostly on the strength of the religion and some other spying bits. But really, I'd have preferred a lot more Delaunay.

My hair is in a horrible, horrible state right now too. I'm trying to grow out the sides which have been shaved like a mohawk for years now, so I have too-short slightly tapered feathers on the sides, and long on top and in back - in short, I have a bad dyke mullet, and this makes me sad. I am wearing it down or in low pigtails for the foreseeable future, or maybe headbands if I can bring myself to try to wear one despite childhood scarring. ALso, lots of hats.

Even with a full head of hair, I never had the dexterity to do a french braid on myself, and pulling all my hair back isn't always flattering anyway. I like the side-rolls thing myself. I suppose baretting the sides back doesn't work well for you?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Barretting the sides back so has never ever worked for me at all. It's unflattering and weird and not in a hipster way. Also, ithink I want the brain right now because of these stupid books which are pissing me off anyway. I really have to write Delaunay fic. Of course, I really also have to write my damn Yuletide story.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I think that for some of us, we look more feminine with short hair because it reveals the shapes of our skulls and jawlines, and the angles and curves from skull to neck to collarbones. I know that the shorter my hair got, the more feminine I felt I looked. (It may also have to do with shape of eyes, cheekbones, and ability to visibly have both strength and extreme vulnerability.)

Must mull this over.

[punzel.livejournal.com]

Please, if you don't mind, put spoilers behind a cut, or precede them with "SPOILER AHEAD:"? That would be much appreciated.