Shine a light, shine a light

Technology is amazing, people. I'm in Boston's Logan Airport waiting for my flight to Philly. I'm starting to get super nervous about my trip to Philly just in terms of being sure that I can make time to see my friends and do my research. My husband has asked if I'm going to go to the neighborhood where we lived together for a year (my favorite neighborhood in the city) and I'm not sure if I'll be able to handle it, emotionally. We'll see.

My big fear is the reception I'll get from the best friend I had in Philly. He's the owner of a used bookstore and in grad school, I basically spent every hour that I wasn't at school/home/gym at that bookstore. I haven't been in touch since I said goodbye in May of 2008, so I hope he'll be happy to see me again.

So why focus on the negative? Let's talk about future plans. Most importantly, future hair plans. Folks, my hair is getting to the point that it's so long that it strangles me when I turn around too abruptly in bed. I definitely need to get it trimmed/cut to a more manageable level. Especially in order to be able to wear it down again, because when I wear it down now I look like an evil fairy-tale witch.

However... I've been thinking of chopping it all off again. In October of '04, I cut off all my hair and kept it pixie-cut short for another couple of years. I loved it like that, but - inevitably - I got bored and started growing it out and here you see me. Recently I've been thinking of shearing it all off again. But I'd want it super-short. Like this:

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(Note: I'm not a huge Natalie Portman fan, but I loved her short-ass hair)

Anyway, I'm excited by the chance of having my hair clean and manageable again, but - as always, there are pros and cons to this haircut:

Pros:

• I would spend a lot less time on my hair. 
• I wouldn't fuss with my bangs. All. The. Damn. Time. 
• Similarly, I wouldn't be obsessing with trimming my bangs all the damn time. 
• I love really short hair and I loved how it looked on me.
• It would be very striking.

Cons:

• I like short hair short. Very short. It's a bitch to maintain (and trust me, it doesn't grow out cute on me), and expensive. Do I have the patience to go to the salon every so often to get it trimmed? When I had short hair before, I went to the salon every two months. And it was looking BAD by that eighth (or seventh, or sixth) week. If I knew how to cut it myself, it would be a godsend. I trim my own bangs and I save so much time/energy on that, but trimming my own shorn head? Hard.
• I don't even know if I can get my hair cut like that, considering my blunt bangs right now. 
• I really really like my hair now, and maybe some inches off the length will be the perfect look for me. 

Then again, it's just hair. It'll always grow back, right? And my hair grows fast. 

There's another element to the mix, and one near and dear to my heart: glasses. When I last had short hair, I wore my contacts most of the time. I think my current Ray-Bans are a little too heavy to wear with unadorned hair. HOWEVER. I do have an eye exam the week after next and there's an infinitesimal chance that I might have to change my prescription. If I do, I wrote before that I'd like to change my glasses, either to these:

or these:

(All images of glasses are from their respective sites, to which I've linked)

So.

If I change glasses, maybe I can think about cutting off all my hair. But if I don't, I'll get a trim. See? It's like a strategy game.

On top of that, I have interviews right after my eye exam. And I want to keep my hair the same for then so that I can put it up in the way I'm used to. 

So. Here's the plan. Eye exam in early February. That will be the starting point. If I don't need to change prescription, I'll just cut my hair right after the interviews and trim it. If I do need to change glasses, I'll wait till I get them and then see what happens. 

FUN TIMES!

Dudes, it's my flight is being called. Laters!