Fairly Boring Post For the Sake of Consistency

[ghosthound]

Next week is one of paid vacation for me.

One of the few benefits of my job is that I accumulated a buttload of vacation. I am technically taking eight days, starting on Saturday and running until the following Sunday. It promises to be a good time. The thing about taking a vacation while working third shift, if my last experience was anything to go on, is that I feel like it stretches FOREVER. This is a good feeling when you have a lot to accomplish in the way of creative arts.

I've been noticing lately that in the last two months people have treated me differently. I attribute this to a haircut I got. I went from having long, curly locks to the middle of my back to having literally no hair on my head. It's since grown out to a short but existent length and I find myself the recipient of some unexpected social change.

In short, strangers are nicer to me now and more likely to ask me for directions or other aid. I suppose I look more clean-cut and less like an artsy music/writer type with no practical dreams or skills. All the worse for people who will find out the hard way, I guess. It seems I wore my oddity on my sleeve and now it takes a moment or two of conversation for people to find out. This may be an exaggeration but that's truly how it seems in some cases anymore.

I can't say that I didn't expect this. It doesn't exactly bother me as much as confirm what I already know about humans. Do I look better with short hair? Possibly. Probably, if I am to take the word of most people I know or run into regularly for it.

I'm up later than I normally am.

Comments

[sterling]

It seems to be a pretty well-known fact: Most people like conformity. Even people who seem to go against the grain a bit, still have areas where they like conformity.

Personally, I've given up on the hair thing. My hair is long. I haven't measured it in some time, but it's probably around 1.5-2 feet long. I usually keep it dyed black to match my eyebrows, and I know people have treated me differently on occasion because I look like a pretty satanist (lol). I honestly don't care. I like my hair, and I think I look good with it, so that's that.

I've often tried to think of an instance that I might actually cut my hair, and the only two things that come to mind are 1) hospital reasons, i.e., they need to shave it off to operate and 2) to get an acting job. Shallow of me maybe, but I think I have gotten to the point that I don't care about society's opinions of me anymore, even if that means putting myself at a disadvantage economically at times. Socially, it works out, because I don't want to hang out with people who don't like me because of my hair!

[ghosthound]

I used to be very attached to it. I have had long hair for the vast majority of my life. I donated it once when I was nineteen, grew it back and donated it again recently, shaving it all off.
My reason for getting rid of it each time is that it became boring. I had the same hairstyle, more-or-less for four years at a clip and that can only last so long for me, really.

[sterling]

Interesting... I'm imagining what it might be like to be bored enough of my hair to actually cut it, and coming up mostly blank. There have been times when I've thought I ought to change it, but the boredom and feeling of wishing for change is usually overridden by the idea that I would have to probably grow it out for 2+ years to get it back to the way I have it now. My brother donates his hair, and it grows back pretty fast, which has almost made me change my mind.

It takes a moment to cut it, but ages to get it back. My hesitation is probably because I did cut it once, back when I was a teenager, and HATED the result so much, I pretty much decided not to cut it again unless I had to.

Too bad the world doesn't work like Stardust (the "haircut" scene, in case you haven't seen it, the barber "cuts" the protagonist's hair longer, rather than shorter).

Also, meant to say earlier but forgot, vacation time is fucking awesome. Any idea what creative stuff you'll be doing?

[ghosthound]

Writing fiction and composing music, mostly. If I made something I'm happy with, I'll share it here.