Congrats, Anais!

Your hair grows so fast, it's unreal. I'm jealous    ...in a friendly way, of course.

It's so hard to believe the transition from what you had in March '03 to now. Mon Dieu!! 

Keep up the good work. 

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Do you think that he and his sweetheart would come and poison pigeons on maggie's rooftop this spring? 

Hair. Washed my hair on Monday night, at about 1 a.m. after writing for Dear Editor's page. I’m back on track with familiar hair, no more plastic feel It’s just soft and manageable, wavy from braiding. I don’t know if I like the shampoo bars. It had been 2-3 weeks of Patchouli, 1 week chocolate orange, 1 week carrot milk and honey ... so at least a month and a half since I started the Chagrin Valley bar experiment. Ida’s site said to give it some time for your hair to adjust to the soap, but I don’t think mine really did. I really liked the dry time – the dry time was cut down to about 45 minutes after I switched to shampoo bars.

Back to the old CO routine that I have loved though. I think shampoo bars will be a good interruption for starting the scalp fresh.

Comb. I’m so excited that Ric is done with my new comb. It’s just a pocket sized one, the smallest they’ve got. If I’d known that shipping was going to be from Hawaii though, I’d have ordered an extra one. This one is in Bubinga, a West-African hardwood. This will be my third Ric comb.... I need to order more... collect all of them....

The more stuff I have to do, the more I discover my inner ability to work like I'm on speed.

this week and next week are going to be crazy speed week.

Had another job interview this morning. The panel called me in, said all my material looks good, my work has been excellent, and I was hired on the spot.

More professional nerd work

Congratulations on the job!  Hard work once again pays off.  Good luck!

Congrats on the job ((((hugz))))

and great avatar

I love my life!

Hair. This has been a fabulous hair week. The scalp has been a little itchy and oily, mainly because I sweated like crazy when sprinting 2 miles because I forgot I had to be somewhere. Thursday was my last hairwash: CCC with diluted Suave CS on scalp, no ACV rinse this time, Suave CS on length, lots of Kirkland LG on the length and ends, wet-comb and sock curl, no Giovanni leave-in.

Bought hair stuff:

Headscarves for the warm season. They are hand-dyed batik rayon with bold and brilliant colors. Here's what one of them looks like:

Honey Marble pearlized Ficcare Maximas. I tried it on in the store, and it stayed in my orchid bun. It looked pretty good too. Unfortunately I don't know if it would have stayed for very long. Now I can't get it to stay put at all. Maybe I'm just not getting the log roll technique. The only reason I bought it was to try again and hoepfully succeed in doing a peacock twist or a log roll. Arrrgh. I'd hate to return it- it's so pretty.

RIC CARPENTER COMB!I've been using such a fabulous bubinga comb from Ric. With enough light, or when well-oiled, the comb is iridescent and 3D. I love it so much. The smoothness of the bubinga is comparable (if not better) than the Chechen. The comb is engraved, "Anais". I'm so in love with this thing.

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Um... I met this guuyyyyy. Or rather, we became conversational. I'll call him B rather than his full first name. We met a couple months ago when he was on the very same panel that handled my nerdy job interview. I don't know if he's still meeting with them but I see him a lot nowadays.

B and I ran into each other today. He doesn't just say "Hi/Hey how are you ", he says "Hi Anais, how are you?" unlike a lot of people who just say "Hi" or "Good morning". Today he said hi first. I asked him if he got enough sleep. He smiled. He said yes. (because of a long weekend trip to a convention, he'd been sleep-deprived on Monday when we last talked. That day I let my hair loose to retie it in a Bubbatail and he got to see it in its entirety. I hope that made an impression). He's an upstanding citizen. He's unattached. He's stable. He has normal friends who don't do crack, get arrested, or are on parole. He has passion. He can dance. These are really short simple sentences because I don't know what to say. He's fabulous. and I don't actually work WITH him in any way, except that he's on the panel that does ethical review of material for the workplace as a whole.

Boss #4 thinks he's great too. and I really trust Boss #4's judgment and special brand of wisdom; he sees certain character that others miss. Four is a good friend of mine. I really appreciate how we talk about other things besides work. We always end up covering personal stuff, personal drive, ethnic issues, culture, human rights, and that sort of thing. Here's what today's conversation kind of inspired me to do:

Personal Vision Statement There's a whole lot more but I left my other notes elsewhere.

I am a dangerous bourgeois intellectual who is d-mn proud and satisfied with life.

Life is short, so I'm going to do whatever I can within reason.

People aren't happy enough.

The world has no shortage of problems, but many people generate these problems themselves (and then sit around complaining about it) When people expose themselves to greater things in the world, whether these great things are literally large (like oceans) or great issues the world is facing, personal problems look smaller. Things could be a whole lot worse!

Many people don't have enough faith in themselves.

My goal will be to give power to the people, one person at a time.

Sometime on Friday, I sat on goose poop and had to go rinse my butt. After sniffing and cleaning my pants, and sniffing and doing more cleaning my pants, I discovered that goose poop smells very familiar....

Henna.

Henna not only looks like goose poop but it also smells like goose poop. Whaddya know.

Congrats for the job. Sounds like life is smiling to you!

Good luck with Ficcare experiments. They are great clips.