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. Continue reading “Curls, CVs, and Other Random-ness” →