2 posts tagged “personal stuff”
Whenever I move to a "new" part of the country (and this has only happened twice), my first spring in that part of the country is fucking miserable due to allergies. My first spring in central IL, my nose was stuffed the whole time. Back in MN for my first spring -- you guessed it. Fuckin' allergies. I shouldn't have them next year, but this year, I'm going to both jobs totally stoned on Benedryl.
An unexpected advantage to this, however, is that I sleep like the dead. This morning, Pineapple was attempting to commiserate with me about the loud-ass girls downstairs (apparently they were up all night screaming and playing loud music) and I was like, "I have no idea what you are talking about."
"You didn't hear that? I had to turn on the humidifyer to drown them out."
"No, but to be fair, I've worked a lot this week and I'm totally wacked out on allergy meds."
Well, anyway, three weeks from now, the girls downstairs will be moving out. Shortly after that, we're throwing a party. The party is MOSTLY due to our birthdays (mine: may 29th, LBCS june 4th, Pineapple june 11th), mostly due to Big Life Events (schools! finishing thesis!) but let's face it, it's partially a farewell to annoying neighbors.
Big dank.
I know my brothers and their respective significant others read this blog, and to them I give an introduction. Hello, my big brothers. You might want to skip the next paragraph, as it details personal information about your younger sibling. You may skip ahead to the final paragraph, which is quite good and has a bit of Project Runway in it. My sisters-in-law (to be and at present), you might find the next paragraph amusing and relevant to your own life, or you may gain further insight to the psyche and habits of the yougest scion of this family you have married/are about to marry into. Everyone else may approach the next paragraph at his or her discretion. It depends on how well you want to know me.
Owing to a few mitigating factors such as being busy, being single, enduring a Minnesota winter, and being out of razor heads (and having no desire to dump $10 on a pack of three right now), I haven't shaved my legs since Christmas. I feel a bit like my old roommate and dear friend Tex, who did the same when we lived together in college. I've made jokes about being a mountain man or an Ultimate Frisbee player (love you, Tex!) to my roommates, but mostly I am perplexed by the patterns of hair growth on my legs. To wit, my knees are going bald. There are some fine golden hairs on the outsides of my knees, but absolutely no hair growing on the kneecap, the insides, and well up onto my thighs. It's puzzling and I'm trying to think of how this happened and why I never noticed this before. Is it the way my jeans hit? Did I shave so much between the ages of 12 and 25 that my knee hair gave up the fight? Or is it something more insidious -- will I be losing hair elsewhere... like, my head? My mom goes on and on about my hair being my best feature (usually when I come home and have dyed it a strange color of which she does not approve), so I don't want to be one of those women with thinning hair on top and a light moustache on her upper lip. That is my fear. Can my knees take Rogaine? Or should I just not worry about it and condisider it one less place I'd be likely to cut myself when I start shaving again?
Ok, onto less personal topics. Let me tell you, I'm not happy Kit got voted off this week, but upon reflection I can't see that Ricky should have been voted off. If I'm angry about anything, it's that Christian got all the glory this week when very obviously it was Chris March's costume sensibilities that afforded them the win. No doubt, Christian had influence in it, but he was soley responsible for the ugly eighties throwback ready-to-wear look. Christian was born around 1985-1986, and so were many of his looks (except for the last one he won, which was hip, modern, and totally freaking cute). Chris seems to be totally learning how to edit and when he should rely on his costume background, and after the Hershey dress, he became not just my favorite personality but also my favorite designer. It's like something clicked in him and he thought, "Oh, I actually have to adapt." I've read some Project Runway press lately, and it seems like some other designers are a little down on him -- Jack in particular. It makes me suspect strongly that after being voted off and then resurrected, Chris March made it into the final three. I think Jack's anger about this possibility is especially unfounded, since it wasn't like Chris stole anything from him. Jack had to leave the show for medical reasons and it blows, and maybe he could have made it to Bryant Park, but maybe he wouldn't have. Honestly, I don't really remember any of Jack's looks, except the one he won -- and I thought that win belonged to Kit. Bad or good, Chris has made all memorable pieces -- like Santino, who I came around to eventually --- and that makes me want to see what a non-costume collection would look like from him. I also wanted to see something from Kit, which is no longer possible. I think Christian can and will make it to the final three, and I wouldn't object, and feel the same about Jillian lately. I don't want Rami to make it because he has an established career, all he does is drape, and he's kind of a dick. Victorya bores me, and Ricky has no chance. Also, Ricky keeps crying, which I think he thinks makes him the Andrae of the group, but he lacks the sparkle, the joy, the Andraeness of Andrae. I miss Andrae.
