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Dec. 30th, 2007 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adiva_calandiaI seem to be losing my ability to think in messages longer than a line of an IM conversation. I keep sending e-mails or leaving comments and then going "--Shit, I should've said that as well! Um, PS? . . ."
Right, so. The question after one gets a new haircut is always "How will it look in a few days, without all the fancy stuff the stylist did to it?" Or at least, that's always my question, because I don't have a blowdryer/curling iron/flat iron/hairspray/gel/you get the picture. My hair care regimen consists of wash, rinse, condition, towel, whack at with brush.
Anyway, the point is, here's how my hair looks now!
It's all curly at the ends, all by itself. It's kinda nice. If I'm going for a polished look, I pull back the front side pieces and barrette them in the back, but I need more effective barrettes.
Also, since some of you expressed interest in my bookshelves, I thought I'd show you the one I actually pay attention to (the one in the other picture is more a repository of books I don't read).
By shelf:
"YA Staples" are Avi, a lot of Bruce Coville (<3) the Misty of Chincoteague books, Sachar, Spinelli, Howe, The Adrian Mole Diaries . . . you get the picture.
"Gweat Litewatuwe" includes Dickens, Twain, and Wells. That label actually also covers up my Historical Fiction section, where Catherine, Called Birdy and The Queen's Fool and A Bone From A Dry Sea live.
"Bigass collection of Holmes books" is all the canonical books, including a collection of all sixty stories, plus a lot of non-canonical books, like all three of Nicholas Meyer's books and Autumn Sabol's Elementary, My Dear, which was originally published on fanfiction.net (but should not be discounted for that! It's a good example of the very popular "Modern girl is magically transported to 221B!" genre, but more importantly, it's a fandom work that got published). I've got my Father Brown and Encyclopedia Brown books in there, too -- and for some reason the five Animorphs books I kept for sentimental value.
"Mostly Asimov" and "Pratchett" are, I hope, self-explanatory. I dunno what all's in the stack in the middle. >.>
"Diana Wynne Jones" is a nearly complete collection of her works, and actually extends behind that stack in the middle. "Formative Fantasy Series" are His Dark Materials, The Dark is Rising, and the Time Quartet. "Harry Potter" is self-explanatory.
If you're not familiar with "Ghostwriter," I'm very very sorry. I mean, I haven't read those in years, but talk about another formative series. These are well-written mysteries, for all that they're based on a kind of weird TV show.
"Gratuitous Wheel of Time" books -- Eye of the World and The Great Hunt. Looks like I have The Robber Bride and Song of Susannah under there.
"Short stories" isn't entirely accurate, because I have some Wrede and Yolen in there, too, and Diane Duane (all series involving dragons, come to think. Hunh). But more than half the shelf are fantasy short story collections edited by Denise Little or Martin H. Greenberg, so mostly it's a good description.
The shelf below that, behind the air purifier, is the rest of my fantasy -- GNeil, de Lint, Nesbitt, McKinley, King . . .
On the piano is "Avenue Q sheetmusic," which is apparently not a word. I almost have "There's a Fine, Fine Line" memorized! And I have the first half of "If You Were Gay" down, too!
And now you know far more about my reading habits than is maybe healthy.
Right, so. The question after one gets a new haircut is always "How will it look in a few days, without all the fancy stuff the stylist did to it?" Or at least, that's always my question, because I don't have a blowdryer/curling iron/flat iron/hairspray/gel/you get the picture. My hair care regimen consists of wash, rinse, condition, towel, whack at with brush.
Anyway, the point is, here's how my hair looks now!
It's all curly at the ends, all by itself. It's kinda nice. If I'm going for a polished look, I pull back the front side pieces and barrette them in the back, but I need more effective barrettes.
Also, since some of you expressed interest in my bookshelves, I thought I'd show you the one I actually pay attention to (the one in the other picture is more a repository of books I don't read).
By shelf:
"YA Staples" are Avi, a lot of Bruce Coville (<3) the Misty of Chincoteague books, Sachar, Spinelli, Howe, The Adrian Mole Diaries . . . you get the picture.
"Gweat Litewatuwe" includes Dickens, Twain, and Wells. That label actually also covers up my Historical Fiction section, where Catherine, Called Birdy and The Queen's Fool and A Bone From A Dry Sea live.
"Bigass collection of Holmes books" is all the canonical books, including a collection of all sixty stories, plus a lot of non-canonical books, like all three of Nicholas Meyer's books and Autumn Sabol's Elementary, My Dear, which was originally published on fanfiction.net (but should not be discounted for that! It's a good example of the very popular "Modern girl is magically transported to 221B!" genre, but more importantly, it's a fandom work that got published). I've got my Father Brown and Encyclopedia Brown books in there, too -- and for some reason the five Animorphs books I kept for sentimental value.
"Mostly Asimov" and "Pratchett" are, I hope, self-explanatory. I dunno what all's in the stack in the middle. >.>
"Diana Wynne Jones" is a nearly complete collection of her works, and actually extends behind that stack in the middle. "Formative Fantasy Series" are His Dark Materials, The Dark is Rising, and the Time Quartet. "Harry Potter" is self-explanatory.
If you're not familiar with "Ghostwriter," I'm very very sorry. I mean, I haven't read those in years, but talk about another formative series. These are well-written mysteries, for all that they're based on a kind of weird TV show.
"Gratuitous Wheel of Time" books -- Eye of the World and The Great Hunt. Looks like I have The Robber Bride and Song of Susannah under there.
"Short stories" isn't entirely accurate, because I have some Wrede and Yolen in there, too, and Diane Duane (all series involving dragons, come to think. Hunh). But more than half the shelf are fantasy short story collections edited by Denise Little or Martin H. Greenberg, so mostly it's a good description.
The shelf below that, behind the air purifier, is the rest of my fantasy -- GNeil, de Lint, Nesbitt, McKinley, King . . .
On the piano is "Avenue Q sheetmusic," which is apparently not a word. I almost have "There's a Fine, Fine Line" memorized! And I have the first half of "If You Were Gay" down, too!
And now you know far more about my reading habits than is maybe healthy.
