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[rinue]

I buzzed my hair yesterday because it was getting ragged and I didn't have money or time for a proper haircut. I was worried that it would make me look like a cancer survivor, or like someone who was overly aggressive - maybe military, maybe skinhead, maybe angry lesbian. I thought it would make me look furious and poor. Instead, somehow, it makes everyone think I'm exceptionally wealthy and oddly friendly. People come up to me to ask how many thousands of dollars my thrift store coat cost and to tell me they think I made the right choice. I have had to forbid all Rosemary's Baby quotes in the house.

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[oddment.livejournal.com]

I tried to read Trainspotting two weeks after I last shaved my head; it didn't go slowly because of the dialect, but because I was mortified by the Ewan McGregor-featuring cover and the possibility that people would think I was taking it really to heart, perhaps as a great source of self-help advice.
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I'm not really sure whether I mean to commiserate on the self-consciousness or remark on the coincidence of head-shaving, but it's definitely one of those.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

I suppose this is one of the advantages of e-books, really - nobody has to know what you're reading and make strange inferences about it. (I still prefer paper books, but nevertheless.)