Hair Hegemony and "Good Ol' Boys"

My shoulders are thoroughly sunburned and I managed to get myself stuck knee deep in pond muck today (long story) so I consider that a day well spent!...... & it's spring break (I'm here in Blairsville not on a beach in Mexico somewhere...yeah, I know I'm awesome) ....so one would think I would have nothing to complain about. haha. There is always something going on that I can babble and rant about so here goes.
I need to get a trim. My hair has steadily been getting shorter and shorter as the months have gone by. I almost feel like I'm...uh...sticking it to the man so to speak wearing my hair boyishly short....which is silly I know. It's so ridiculous that a person's persona can be so contingent on her hair but I feel like people focus on hair so much it's really hard not to care. I'm sick of women being so incredibly attached to their hair that they feel the need to hold on to it and jealously guard it ...as if with its loss they lose all their power and all traces of femininity and would suddenly sprout penises. hahaha....Okay, maybe that's a bit dramatic....and I've decided to allow mine to grow out again because I'm sick of constantly having to get it trimmed. The problem with the pixie cut is that it is cute for about a month and a half and then it grows you wake up one day with a thing that resembles a mullet. I'm not kidding. It is slightly terrifing....So I'm getting rid of it. I need to get the back trimmed to let the other parts catch up I guess. I'm glad I got that out of my system though ;)

Hair hegemony isn't so bad here....In 2005 North Korea decided it would regulate citizens' hair. Apparently, men must have hair under two inches long. Poor guys.
"State-run Central TV last week declared that the more hair one has, the more one’s brain activity is hampered by oxygen being drawn away from nerves in the head."
http://www.stanford.edu/class/comm273/Fall2004/rlowe1/Breasts.html
hahahahaha

In other news. This summer might really suck. Back before school started I had got it in my head that I must absolutely go to Australia this summer to study abroad. Believe me, I still really, really want to but it's not going to happen. First of all, I would only get to stay for about a month if I went during the summer and if I'm going to pay over a grand for the flight alone I want to stay longer....much longer. A month isn't long enough to see anything AND take 6 hours of classes....so....Even though I feel, literally, sick to my stomach as I watch the summer drawing nearer and I know I will not be traveling to the South Pacific to visit the Great Barrier reef and learn about sustainable development I HAVE A PLAN! I have decided that, at all costs, I'm going to Australia and New Zealand for spring semester next school year (they don't offer the program for fall).
My dad informed me last week that he knows a guy who knows a guy who might be about to get me a good job with the government somewhere in Blairsville for a few months this summer. haha. He said something about asking the commissioner for getting the necessary funds to pay me.....WTF? The whole thing just sounds bizarre. Whatever. If I can find a job this summer I will be grateful...as long as it's not an office job like I have now. Totally mind numbing. I despise office politics and paper work.
My dad walked in today with a bag of ammunition that his buddies at the sheriff's office gave him...for free. hahaha. Thanks tax payers for buying my daddy some ammunition. I guess there are many perks to being a "good ol' boy": free stuff, being able to get out of speeding tickets and other run-ins with "the law", and getting your teen-aged kid a government job while people with real credentials are collecting unemployment (or at least thinking you might be able to). I'm not counting on it. If all else fails I'll be taking a few classes at North Georgia or online and...uh...who the hell knows? I guess I'll figure out something eventually. :/
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