The boys head back to school tomorrow. Of course, I left everything to the last minute. We were out of the house at 9 am to pick up t-shirts with ironic graphics.
They both needed haircuts, too. Scissor cuts for both of them. None of that electric razor business for them.
I hope that Ian’s Lands End backback arrives with the UPS afternoon delivery. I put off this purchase for so long that they sold out of orange cammo, and we had to settle for a dull and predictable navy blue. They’ll have to use last year’s lunch boxes, until a new shipment arrives at the Land’s End warehouse.
Lots of people have sent me a link to last week’s New York Times article about how frizzy, curly hair is back in style. Straight is out. Which is good, because I have been going bigger and bigger in the past year. I read the article to see if they had any new tips on hair product. They mentioned several trendy women with curly hair. I know St. Vincent and Lorde, two curly hair chicks. But I never heard of Petra Collins or Olivia Bee. I ended up googling them. Their websites were more interesting than their hair.
Olivia Bee’s photographs were pretty cool. Blurry and dreamy and edgy. Petra Collins is cleaner and more traditional. I liked how her website included her art and her essays.
I redid my CV a couple of weeks. I had separate CVs for academia, journalism, and blogging/social media. I took down the walls between all those activities and put it into one giant CV, along with other activities like autism activism. It was strangely empowering. The whole is much more interesting than the separate parts. Now, I’m going to make myself a website CV with links to the professional writing and activism, plus some of my favorite photographs.
Today’s curl:
Apt. 11d 
“We were out of the house at 9 am to pick up t-shirts with ironic graphics.”
We did the same yesterday afternoon. Except all the shirts with ironic graphics that we saw were ones that my son had already seen on other kids. So that takes away from the individualism of it all. He wants his shirts from RedBubble, which is way more expensive than Target or Kohls. Ugh.
Also, he left his summer homework till the last minute. I’m letting him sweat over this himself. I’ve been reminding him for weeks.
Also, too, we are back from Germany. Guten tag. Schön, dich wieder zu sehen.
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Good luck with whatever you’re fixing up the CV for. Mine hasn’t been updated since 2009, but I should look in on that. I’m on soft money and will need a different project soon.
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What is wrong with last year’s lunch boxes? We’ve been using the same ones for 6 years!
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Your kids can still use Landsend bags? Mine graduated to the big Adidas ones (Ebags has good deals) in seventh grade – too many binders to fit!
And as a fellow curly-headed person, I read that article with great interest – but it didn’t say anything new 😦 In my case, my curls are a result of hormone changes with age and the hair thinning – I had lightly wavy hair until a few years ago, so I’m struggling to deal with the frizz and wild curls which are very different from my previous wash and wear styles.
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“Your kids can still use Landsend bags? Mine graduated to the big Adidas ones (Ebags has good deals) in seventh grade – too many binders to fit!”
I was horrified when just the school supplies alone (no textbooks) were too heavy for the 7th-grader to carry by herself.
“And as a fellow curly-headed person, I read that article with great interest – but it didn’t say anything new 😦 In my case, my curls are a result of hormone changes with age and the hair thinning – I had lightly wavy hair until a few years ago, so I’m struggling to deal with the frizz and wild curls which are very different from my previous wash and wear styles.”
My youthful hair is fine and very, very, very, very straight–back in the perm days, it was hard to persuade it to hold a curl. The white hair that I have coming in now, on the other hand, is coarse and wavy and obviously WANTS to curl. I’m even a little excited that I’ll be able to do stuff with it.The problem is that I don’t have enough of the new stuff for it to make a difference yet.
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Ouidad is the secret curly hair product. The 80’s were my decade. The last time my hair looked really good was back when big hair was in. Part of me really wants it to make a comeback.
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WOW, the usefulness of blogging! I’d never ever heard of Ouidad!!! Where do I start, though? It’s a whole website with a whole line of products!!
Maybe I’ll leave my hair curly past the summer this time. I was even thinking of letting it grow! I don’t know about that one… I’ve always wanted long hair, but mine is WAY too fine, impossible to really let grow long. It’s sad, but true…
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Start with the shampoo and the anti-frizz gel. You’ll be glad you did.
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I also did not find the NY article enlightening. I’ve read much better, and it was citing a style trend that is out of my world (either straight or curly hair).
I first learned of the curly hair movement from an article by Megan McArdle: http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2011/08/friday-girl-talk-can-a-professional-woman-go-curly/243870/. It was interesting — I never considered not having my hair curly (probably didn’t hurt that my hair was perfect for the big hair 80’s, too and I’m not one to update my style very often :-). So it was interesting to learn about the issue and the pressure people feel to straigten hair (I’d known about the hair politics in the African American community, but not for curly haired people in general).
Will check out Ouidad. We like Neutragena triple moisture shampoo/conditioner around here, partly because it is easily available and not smelly. Kiddo is very sensitive to smelliness. She likes coconut/sugar smells but not fruity smells and is sensitive to some chemicals. How is Ouidad on fragrance?
Has anyone else read/seen this book? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YL4KS0. I found the advise only partly useful, but loved the passion the author had for curly hair and the beautiful pictures of people with lovely curly hair.
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One of my friends (who is Hispanic, but whose kid has inexplicably kinky hair) uses this stuff on the kid:
http://www.mixedchicks.net/
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