Off Days and Bad Hair

[cleolinda]

I knew yesterday was going to be a bad day (well, let's say "an off day." Katrina is kind of making me reevaluate my concept of a "bad" day) when I woke up and my hair was completely flat. And I have curly hair, y'all. It was still curly, just... flat. Like it'd been pressed inside a book. Which was particularly annoying, since I had washed it and put in extra frizz-ease stuff the day before so that I wouldn't have to wash it yesterday, because I was going to be spending much of the afternoon at the library, and I didn't want to have to get up extra early and sit around waiting on my hair to dry, because I am a lazy cuss. See, it's at a length now where I'm starting to understand where that whole "I can't, I have to wash my hair" excuse came from. It's not as long as it was when I was in high school, for sure, but it's long enough to get supah-tangled and necessitate 45-minute showers with half a bottle of conditioner every two days. And then you don't want to immediately hit the hair dryer because your hair turns out all frizzofluff, you have to let it air-dry a while to get the curl to settle down, and how did this entire entry turn into the saga of my fucking hair? I do not know, people. I do not know.

So. Off day. I have a new purse. Black, genuine leather, $26, Target (insert hurricane guilt here. We're all probably going to have it for at least a month, so settle in and enjoy it, y'all). It's the first "grown-up purse" I've really ever had, although this does not mean that I am above toting my lavender straw clutch around. Point is, my previous purse was basically a stack of pockets and was annoying as fuck because I could never find anything. So I decide to get a shoulder bag, not very big, that you basically just zip open and stick your hand in. Also, my wallet actually fits in it, and nothing is sadder than a wallet that sticks a good two inches out of your purse. (Well, not nothing. Reminds me of a joke I heard: "What's worse than a worm in your apple?" "The Holocaust.")

Anyhoo, I'm feeling all sassy and capable with my new purse and I go to the library to get this forty-page article on tattooing and cannibalism and "Losing Face in Typee," and first of all, I proceed to make an idiot of myself at the reference desk by asking where the reserve desk is, and the guy says, very kindly, "The circulation desk is also the reserve desk." (Look, the school's online journal databases are so good that I rarely actually have to go to the library itself.) And then I go to the circulation desk and ask the guy there about the article, and he asks for the call number, so I give him my class's call number. And he's like, "No, the call number of THE BOOK." So I flee to one of the catalog computers and go look it up. But that's okay, because I've got the Purse of Sassy Capability! It's got change for the copy machine! It's got my student ID/copy card! It's got a notepad to write the call number down on! It's... nowhere in sight. I have literally had the purse out of the house for the first twenty minutes of its existence and I have lost it already.

I march back to the reservulation desk, give the circuvation guy the evil eye, and snatch my purse back off the counter.

And it just went on from there. I spent the day being so hapless that by the time I got home, I spent about an hour reading email and then I just crawled into bed. I didn't even have dinner until about 8:30. I don't know why I was so exhausted, except that maybe it's allergies. Everyone in my house is going around sneezing--me, my mother, the cat, all three dogs. And, I mean, Sam does sneeze to get attention sometimes. Like the time he saw me making a PB&J sandwich, and he knows that he gets pills in peanut butter when he's sick, so he starts coughing at me. I am not making this up. When he wants to go outside or play with you, if you don't immediately cooperate, he starts sneezing at you ("PSHT! PSHT! PSHHHT!"). This was not the sneeze of attentionwhoring. For one, he was out in the hall by himself and not dancing around on my face. Number two, he was sneezing so hard that I was afraid I was going to go out there and find a little explosion of pommy white fur ("PSHHHHHHHHHHFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFWWWWWWT!"). And then he came back into the room and started rubbing his eyes with his little paws, so I took him downstairs to get his medicine. Mom's sacked out on the couch with an herbal pillow on her face and the cat is on her back with one paw on her forehead ("What a world, what a worrrrrrld!"), and the entire household is basically sniffly and useless.

So I'm here now, dividing my time between sleeping, waking up after realizing I can't breathe, pretending to go through boxes of papers and magazines, and waiting for fucking Venus in Boston to come in. Please keep in mind that my vitriol is not actually directed at the book, which is a lovely piece of 19th-century sensation lit that I am extremely looking forward to. (The professor asked if we thought Typee, an early Melville effort, was great literature. Then he sort of quipped that none of us, most likely, would think that Venus in Boston is great literature. No, but if it's anything like George Lippard's Quaker City, it will be awesome literature, let me tell you what.) I ordered it from Amazon like two weeks ago, and they claim to have shipped it, and it is still! not! here! And I have to have the first part read by Monday afternoon ARGH.

(Okay, I just checked, and it's supposed to arrive on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, YOU BASTARDS.)

And then there's the Katrina linkage project. It seems that friends are actually getting worried about me now, which is funny because most of the work is over now--between the links everyone's sending and that I'm seeing on all the sites and boards I visit anyway, it's mostly just pasting them into Semagic on WYSIWYG format and organizing them a little. So it's basically me bumming around with class reading and dog-feeding (fie on you, strict new diabetic feeding schedules!) and pretending to clean and listening to way too much Jewel ("My hands ARE my own!").

I keep showing y'all these because I'm terrified I'm going to design something crap and someone's going to point out a way to make it better only AFTER a dozen people have bought the crap version.

(There are at least a dozen Heroine Addict designs, because... I'm cruel, apparently. Charity, people! Charity!)


 

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

I need the porno one yesterday. That is how bad I need it.

[leucocrystal]

Oh... man. That paragraph about everyone, even the dogs sneezing... that just made my day. Not to be all "Oooh, I snark at your woe and sneezing" or anything overtly bitchy like that -- it just reminded me of my best friend's dog, and how she'll randomly sneeze and snuffle at his mother whenever she wants to eat an ice cube, lmao.

I hope you all get better soon, though. And the designs are still brilliant. ♥

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

while i ain't sayin' Jewel can't possibly have done an acoustic cover of it, Australian group Frente! did an acoustic cover of BLT that actually got a fair bit of airplay on the radio when it came out...

[chowburger.livejournal.com]

I adore the design of the cousins one. Must have it!

And the worm joke - I didn't know it was an actual one. Though I just had weird friends...

[chowburger.livejournal.com]

And by 'though,' I do, of course, mean 'thought.'

Smackfarthing

[corkdorkdan.livejournal.com]

I just took a trip to the LOST recaps archive (subtle hint-- will we see more soon?) and came across the beloved "Smackfarthing" references. It occurred to me that I haven't seen any mention of these for possible button/mug/hat/t-shirt designs. Something like a "I <3 smackfarthing", possibly with a virgin mary image (the filled statues from the show). Just a thought.

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

BUTTONS!

OMFG BUTTONS!

It relieves me so much to see something I can both afford and use on here. There MUST be at least one button with a Mary Sue meme reference on it, though.

and I should get that one free

[leila82.livejournal.com]

I used to have a button collection.

Anyway, I'm normally a lurker on your journal, but as a fellow curly-head I sympathize with the flat-hair plight. This works for me: I have a spray bottle (it used to hold spray gel) and I filled it with water. When I don't feel like washing my hair, I flip it upside down, spray the bottom layer till it's damp, and then flip back over and spray the top layer till damp. Usually it dries in about 30 min and looks about as fluffy as it would normally after washing/conditioning/attacking with anti-frizz creme. Hopefully that helps?

Yes, Frente!

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

I bet it's the Frente version, my copy of that came labeled as "Jewel", too. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, mine's labeled, "Jewel - Bizarre Love Triangle/Frente!" So I wouldn't be surprised, and it really does kind of sound like Accented Jewel.

Re: Yes, Frente!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, exactly.

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

Cousins!

I'm loving these things. I'm definitely going to buy this stuff, darling. So much fun.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

thank you EVER so much for posting about your household of allergy sufferers. It made me laugh...not at YOU, but b/c I'm suffering as well. The horrid part is that b/c of my being almost 7 months pregnant, I can only have 4 mg of chlorpheniramine(and yes i did go grab the bottle to look up how to spell it) every 6 hours. It does next to nothing.

The cute part is that the cat has taken to sneezing so that she can get attention, b/c my husband's paying all kinds of attention to me. LOL

I hope everyone feels better soon. :)

Re: Smackfarthing

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that probably wouldn't infringe on LOTR rights under parody laws...

(I'm planning on finishing up the last recaps as soon as I buy the DVD set.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude, you actually should. So far I've just got stickers ready, which are comparable in price.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, I used to do that--I'll need to get a fresh bottle, but I might should try that again...

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Free stuff is unneccesary. That would be wanky of me.

But I prefer buttons. ^_^ The reason is, I don't like to use stickers on anything that isn't semi-permanent because they can only be used once and I don't have a car.

I do, however, have a black rucksack purse, which I cover in buttons for decoration. I even have a button that says "your online journal blows".

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

heh, well...if you need further confirmation + can send it to me, i can tell you pretty quickly if it's them or not. sounds like you may not need it, though. :)

Re: Smackfarthing

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

Wholly seconding the smackfarthing idea.

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

Hurricane guilt. Yeah. I just made a post about that myself. *sigh*

[princessmandys.livejournal.com]

AAAH! i thought i was the only person in the world that A) had days that were as confusing as that and B) who's hair does that! (mine's not strictly curly, but it still goes all....flat. and dead....argh.) *Love ur dogs now...*
Buttons! omgwtf buttons! must have them. those designs are brilliant, of course...more heroine addict ones you say? well charity had better get ready for a whole truckload of my money! are you going to do poto buttons? hmm...images might be hard...but if you just did words...
The best thing about buttons, more than stickers, is that when all of us lowly cleolinda worshippers, (seriously, you're practically a religion), have conventions and such we can all wear our buttons! and they can be code so that when we see eachother in the mall we can wave and say hi! that will be amusing. :D
You rock!

[princessmandys.livejournal.com]

The cute part is that the cat has taken to sneezing so that she can get attention, b/c my husband's paying all kinds of attention to me. LOL

That's hilarious!! I dunno, should I wish that my dog were that smart? lol

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah, I know what you mean about the buttons. In fact, I think they're somehow *cheaper* than the stickers. The only reason I don't have any Sue buttons ready yet is that it's a different design template--I just have to rearrange some elements and resize some things, probably, but I've been so scattered lately that I'm just darting around to whatever pops into my head. I need to sit down and look at the available designs and flesh out all the other products, really.

[aria624.livejournal.com]

Its too bad you have to worry about copyright stuff, because I would love to see a "Good Ship Charlie loves Babymama" and "Sayidistan" stickers.

And I totally sympathize with the purse thing. I lose anything that's not attached to my body. My teachers actually started recognizing which purses were mine after I left them in the classroom so many times during my first two years of college - after which time I stopped carrying a purse to class.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Eeee! So much button love. Plus, yay stickers, since I have this laptop that I would like to look different from every other Dell out there. And very cool design for the heroine addict buttons. I'll be getting one of those as well.