Sugared Harpy

OMG.

There are no words.

Thank you for encouraging me to be nurturing.

Encouraging me to be giving and thoughtful to my partners has really put me in a good place emotionally, when by contrast, you have encouraged my partners to ALSO be giving and thoughtful…to themselves.

“White people view the internship as their foot into the door to such high-profile low-paying career fields as journalism, film, politics, art, non-profits, and anything associated with a museum. Any white person who takes an internship outside of these industries is either the wrong type of white person or a law student. There are no exceptions.

If all goes according to plan, an internship will end with an offer of a job that pays $24,000 per year and will consist entirely of the same tasks they were recently doing for free. In fact, the transition to full time status results in the addition of only one new responsibility: feeling superior to the new interns.”

Ah, yes. Stuff White People Like, you have once again nailed me.

Except one thing. WHAT LUCKY BASTARD GOT A WHOPPING $24,000 PER YEAR AFTER THE INTERNSHIP??? ‘Cause it sho wasn’t me.

Here is the last of what the purple looked like. I had to pull up the tiniest top layer of my hair so you could see this:

Here I am with the pink again! This is Hot Hot Pink from Manic Panic, layered on the upper portion of my hair on top of that leftover purple.

My mirror is full of toothpaste spots.

Since I was about to hop in the shower, I am also nude :)

We went to Kansas City again this weekend. We love small trips. Very helpful for stress and super fun!

It’s also fun to watch your boyfriend wash your car.

If you go to Kansas City, Gates Barbecue is fine and all but for the first-timer a bit confusing. CANIHELPYOU!!! is screamed constantly at no one in particular. You only give bits of your order at a time and it takes about ten minutes of CANIHELPYOU!!! to a crowd, versus a line, to get all the bits of your order to the nice CANIHELPYOU!!! lady and then maybe you can figure out where to pay. I tasted all right. It’s no Arthur Bryants.

Sir liked Jack Stack.

Still no Arthur Bryants. You can’t beat the atmosphere in that place.

Also, if you head to Kansas City you will want to see the World War I Museum. It’s beautiful and very well done.

You can go to the top of that lovely art deco tower. We did.

You can maybe skip the Jazz Museum. We didn’t know what to look at or where to go. No order to be found. I wanted to like it, but it was difficult. We walked around in a state of befuddlement.

In the middle is the Negro Baseball League Museum. Go see it. But it’s got a lot of randomata going on. Text, text, interesting text, PICTURE OF SOME DUDE, text, random text. See it because it tells a story you don’t really hear, but expect some curveballs (heehee!).

I took this in the hotel (HOTWIRE!) bathroom for you. Warm lighting does not show you that the entire bottom half of my hair is virtually white.

Why yes, I AM wearing a purple shirt with purple hair.

“If Planned Parenthood, the Family Research Council and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy really want to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies, they should study such factors as poverty, the older ages of male partners, the advantages having children afford poorer young women and the plunge in births among married teens and adults, among other realities. That would be easier if the stigmatizing concept of “teenage pregnancy” was not part of our health-policy deliberations.”
~ Males, LA Times.

I found this link on Bitch, Phd and thought, “Hey, look, sense!” Go, READ, I’ll wait here.

We’ll get back to riveting hair blogging tomorrow.

Day 8:

Day 9 with still damp hair:

So, the purple is now a lovely still-purple at the top of my head and a blue-gray at the bottom.

Not that my lying bathroom pictures would tell you that.

Day 5:

Day 6:

I’m soooo cool in pictures, bleh.

In that bathroom, in THOSE shots, my hair is all, “Look at my lavender loveliness. Oh my gosh, so pretty!”

Here’s this blue/gray I’ve been talking about. My lying bathroom won’t give this up, but natural light will.

Day 5:

Day 6:

(I know that’s a weird shot, am genius at the fotoz.)

I still like the color, though, but the ends are going to be skanky hell soon when the blonde starts to show turning it blue/yellow/gray. Mmmmmm.

Seriously, hair blogging, are you at the edge of your seat or what?

By my roots, still pretty. The ends are starting to get ashy gray/purple.

I need a category for stupid hair blogging.

Huh, it looks more blue today in person. Not so much in the picture. Maybe this time it’s going to stay purple longer!