the new do

so i got a haircut on sunday. my usual haircut factory type place on west georgia. i went in because i was out looking for pants (why good-fitting clothes are so hard to find) and i couldn't find any that were any better than the pants i had at home. i was getting frustrated. and my hair was in need of a trim anyway, so why not? called for an impromptu appointment and they could fit me in with some person i'd not seen before, so in i went.

out i came with a reverse mullet! i don't know what i had agreed to, but i went in with slightly mangy overgrown hair that was otherwise reasonably acceptable and came out with a CENTRE-PARTED FULL-FRINGED REVERSE MULLET! i'm not up on my hairdo terminology to know a better word for something that leaves me with a much shorter back and two seemingly unrelated non-graduated dangly wads of hair on either side of my head. from the front it actually looked ok, but from the side i looked strange and from the back i looked like i must have cut my hair myself! i didn't really come to appreciate those angles until i was at home.

so back to the haircut factory i went. of course, i'm nice, so i didn't want to offend the very nice haircutting person who had given me the reverse mullet and i made some randomly babbled excuse about liking each part separately but not altogether at once on my head... she trimmed about a centimetre off the dangly bits and then prepared to finish - i had to tell her to keep going about three more times until it was evened(ish) out...

now i have a sort of blunt bob (verging on mom hair) but that is much better than something that looked like the gateway to kate gosselin's dead possum hairdo.