Oh, Jo!

I have this memory of the story "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott where Jo goes and sells her hair, and when she returns her sister says "Oh, Jo! How could you?! Your One beauty!!" Well, that's exactly what I did today, minus the sale.

I chopped off all my hair and donated it. (well, I haven't technically donated it yet, it is still waiting to be mailed, but you get the idea) I figured - cut 10+ inches and do a simple style to what's left. I donated my hair once before, but it was even longer, so when I donated it, It just looked like a shorter version of how it always looked. I decided if I was going to do it, I was going to do it right.

I went to get my hair cut by a long time friend, Moses, who since a little after High School has been cutting and stying hair. He chopped the ponytail and immediately had a vision for how he wanted my hair to look once it was done. He cut it and showed it to me curly before straightening it for the finishing touches (so hopefully it'll look good both ways)

Here are a couple pictures from when we went out tonight so you can see what he did. It is angled to the front and really short in the back, and he actually thinned it a bit to control it when it's curly too.

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And here it is Curly!

Unreachable

I dread the day that airplanes will have internet access. True, it will prove to be one more form of convenience that traveling will provide. Sure, now not only can we fly across the country for a day for a meeting, but the interim travel time will not be wasted! I think of it as just the opposite. Travel time is the one time that I get to take a break from the world. I get to pretend no one is trying to contact me, and I have an excuse for why I don’t answer my phone. I am not expected to respond to emails, and when people ask, I can simply say “I am so sorry I missed you, I was traveling.” Unfortunately, that excuse will go by the wayside. Similar to how fifteen years ago, one could drive somewhere and be unreachable, now if you’re on the ground, you pretty much have no excuse no not be available by phone/blackberry/etc.

When at home, I have no time to sit down and read. I go straight from work to work out or to dance or to teach dance or to spend time with my family. Lately, I haven’t even enjoyed dinner without multitasking at the same time. But because I traveled this week, I read a book. I wrote a blog entry. I took a nap. And how lovely it was. I read “A thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. He is the same author who wrote “The Kite Runner” which I read last year. “A thousand splendid suns” was a beautifully written book of the accounts of two women living in Afganistan, whose stories are filled with history, love, fear, growth, violence and faith. I would recommend reading it if you haven’t already.

Hopefully this weekend will be nice and relaxing too. If I muster the guts, I plan to chop off all my hair too.

New Years and beyond.

After my last post reminiscing of years past, I can only write about the future here, right?

This year has started awesomely. I spent New Years weekend in Asheville, NC at Lindy Focus dance camp. I didn't really know what to expect going in, but after an interesting first evening filled with the drive the Asheville, tryouts and dancing, camp began with a bang. For four days, we spent most of every day in class, learning new moves, techniques, and styles. One session of classes was dedicated solely to a choreographed routine, and that was actually pretty cool. As I always say, I love these weekends of dance because not only the classes, but the practice with new leads improves my dancing. I come home only wanting to dance. I was lucky to have been paired with an awesome guy for the class routine, and got to know new friends as the weekend went on.

After dancing from 10pm new years eve until 7:30 am on new years day, all I wanted to do was sleep. But no, I had to drive to Atlanta and do stuff, so I just got a regular night's sleep. While Wednensday night then should've been my "catch-up" night, i just couldn't pass up going dancing at Graveyard Tavern. I guess I'll just have to wait to sleep for the weekend since tonight we have tiny bunch practice and we'll be doing Aerials.

I am looking forward to another great year with friends, family, and some awesome dances.