Monday, November 20, 2006
Everything Old is New Again, and Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
First, let me apologize to those of you who read my blog via rss feed. I've switched to the new Google Beta version of Blogger. This in and of itself isn't really very important, except that now my blog posts can be tagged.
At first I thought I'd make general categories for my blog posts and have everything neatly organized, but then I started listing key terms like "nausea" and "hip" and "infusion" and "eyebrows" that appear in some posts but not others, and now the tags are just lists of descriptors that appear in each post (the term "Brian" appears most frequently, despite Brian's insistence that I don't mention him enough) and I've given up limiting the number of key terms I'm willing to use.
What is a pain for me is that I have to go in and list the keywords for each post manually. I've been doing it gradually because I have 89--now 90 blog posts to edit. What is a pain for you is that each time I edit one of these things, it appears to be showing up as a brand new blog post.
At least it does in my subscription on Bloglines.
So anyway, I'm sorry about the confusion, although this gives you a chance to re-read some pretty interesting posts from way back when without having to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which is currently the only way to view one of my favorites from when I was just discovering the wonders of the Internet (try 1998).
Last night in the course of my dreaming (something involving girl scouts and a flood and driving cars) I was utterly convinced that my long, thick chestnut brown hair needed to be put in a ponytail. I was actually getting somewhat frustrated, because my hair was so thick and silky that it kept slipping out of the ponytail holder and I had to try repeatedly.
It took me a while after I woke up to remember that I did not in fact have long, thick chestnut brown hair that could be put in a ponytail and that instead I look like a pasty eyebrowless gollem with an anemic sea urchin on its head. I don't think I look particularly good in a ponytail under the best of circumstances, so I guess the fact that I can't put my hair in one now is kind of pointless. I'm just tired of having to go through so much effort on a daily basis to look human. I am tired of painting the eyebrows on. I am tired of lining my eyes to simulate lashes or trying to use false lashes. I am tired of wearing detatchable hair.
At first I thought I'd make general categories for my blog posts and have everything neatly organized, but then I started listing key terms like "nausea" and "hip" and "infusion" and "eyebrows" that appear in some posts but not others, and now the tags are just lists of descriptors that appear in each post (the term "Brian" appears most frequently, despite Brian's insistence that I don't mention him enough) and I've given up limiting the number of key terms I'm willing to use.
What is a pain for me is that I have to go in and list the keywords for each post manually. I've been doing it gradually because I have 89--now 90 blog posts to edit. What is a pain for you is that each time I edit one of these things, it appears to be showing up as a brand new blog post.
At least it does in my subscription on Bloglines.
So anyway, I'm sorry about the confusion, although this gives you a chance to re-read some pretty interesting posts from way back when without having to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which is currently the only way to view one of my favorites from when I was just discovering the wonders of the Internet (try 1998).
Hair Dreams
Last night in the course of my dreaming (something involving girl scouts and a flood and driving cars) I was utterly convinced that my long, thick chestnut brown hair needed to be put in a ponytail. I was actually getting somewhat frustrated, because my hair was so thick and silky that it kept slipping out of the ponytail holder and I had to try repeatedly.
It took me a while after I woke up to remember that I did not in fact have long, thick chestnut brown hair that could be put in a ponytail and that instead I look like a pasty eyebrowless gollem with an anemic sea urchin on its head. I don't think I look particularly good in a ponytail under the best of circumstances, so I guess the fact that I can't put my hair in one now is kind of pointless. I'm just tired of having to go through so much effort on a daily basis to look human. I am tired of painting the eyebrows on. I am tired of lining my eyes to simulate lashes or trying to use false lashes. I am tired of wearing detatchable hair.
Labels: blog, Brian, eyebrows, google, hair, rss
