Must Remember to Use Sunblock on My Neck for a While

[rinue]

Have chopped off more than a foot of hair - was three inches short of waist length, and is now somewhere between Agyness Deyn and River Phoenix as Indiana Jones. This was not out of a particular desire to donate it, although it is being donated, or because it was starting to get in my way, although I was pinned down by it more times than I ever needed to be. I got tired of people saying "your hair is so long!" Other people in my life have only known me as long haired, and have therefore thought of me as a long-haired person, with attendant long-haired person traits, even though I always thought of my long hair as a pretty and somewhat novel costume.

Lots of random men weighed in over the years on how much better I look with long hair than in my driver's license photo, which annoyed me also.

In any case, I look forward to returning to an era when people look at my face rather than my body, and actually listen to me when I speak. My hair length should have no effect on this, and yet. . .

Since I started growing it out at the same time I applied to grad school, and I have now finished my coursework, it has a nice sort of formalism to it. It makes it seem very symbolic, even though we all know it just means I have the time and access necessary to maintain a short cut again.