Summer time

[bugshaw]

And I am thinking the usual English thoughts about how hot and sticky it is. I'm quite good with heat, I like it when it's dry and baking and you drink pints and pints of water and your skin stays dry as a bone. I ♥ Arizona. But when it's humid, there's no breeze and your lungs believe you're breathing underwater, that's what I find hard to handle. And sitting completely still and calm, wearing minimal clothing, while perspiration still beads at your hairline and runs down your neck and the sides of your face, that's just uncomfortable and unpleasant.

For the last couple of years I've had my hair cut quite short in the summer, but this last half-year I've been growing it for a change. I know what it was like when it was longish and straight before, but I don't know how it will be now it's gone curly. But it's so hot! It's not quite long enough to tie back, to get it off my temples and the back of my neck. I would go for a haircut now, but I'm sure in 6 weeks I'll be glad of the length, and in Edinburgh in February it will be handy to keep my ears warm. Resist! Resist the snippage!
EDIT: I have two ponytails in a hi/low configuration. This keeps me cooler, but is probably not my best look :-)

I bought a necklace from elisem a few weeks ago, and it arrived today. It's lovely, very silver and black and sparkly, with silver wire twiddles everywhere, but it definitely has winter in it. I may have to buy some new tops to go with it :-) The 10-year-old convention t-shirt aesthetic I so often slip into is very easy to wear, but it has its limitations.

Comments

[redbird]

Hot and humid is annoying. (We've been given a "heat advisory" for this afternoon, based on that combination.)

I found the summer I was growing my hair out a bit difficult, but now it's long enough not to look goofy when I braid it on hot days.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

I'm having that argument with myself too. Now that I have this new body, I want to see if I can tolerate long hair again. It's just at that stage where I can't put it back/up but it's not quite 'right' either, as it's always in my face. Decisions, decisions. It's not as thick as it used to be, so I may be able to pull off long again. Of course, starting a new job in a week and a half, I should make up my mind before then. I won't if you won't.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

When my hair was long, it was very impractical. It never dried (being so thick), I kept taking the easy option of wearing it in a ponytail (which does not suit me), it clogs the drains, and it was irritating when I rolled over in bed so I lay on my hair then couldn't get up! Remind me why I'm doing this, again?

Short hair needs washing every morning or I get serious 'bed head'; short hair needs more frequent cutting which can get quite pricey; the grey shows up more (I don't dye my hair (yet)); it's less flexible for styling; it's eerily similar to my Mum's haircut...

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I think it was elisem's jewellery that I spent a while drooling over at Wiscon - they were gorgeous and out of my price range. It sounds like a lovely necklace.

When I have shorter hair and it's warm it usually ends up in pigtails, but that does make me look like I'm 12.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Well, she had a sale, and the exchange rate was good, and I've tried to buy a necklace like thisa couple of times now... As an added bonus I didn't get charged any duty :-)

I bought a pendant too (named "underwater alchemy"), and it's even nicer than its picture, ocean jasper which glows with light behind it, but when I lifted it from its box it told me it belonged to someone else. I've never held with this "omg jewelry spoke to me it did!" lark, until it, er, did. It was like a Sorting Hat moment. I hope its recipient agrees, or I'll have it back!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

> pigtails

I've been looking for a picture of Bella Barlow, Girl Gymnast from Tammy comic, but I can't find one online. That would be me, younger, with a big monkey-face grin and too-short hair in bunches. But not gymnastic.