acht.seibzehn

[cosmolinguist]

I worked last night but didn't get woken up at all. So I woke up at six having spent almost eight whole hours asleep, and I felt really good. I don't remember the last time I slept that well; I didn't wake up once, I can't remember falling asleep or how long it took or what I thought about or anything. I barely remember going to bed at all. I feel good. Too bad I don't have anything to do with this day. Katie and Josh won't even be around; it's their anniversary so they're going "on vacation" to St. Cloud for a couple of days. And just walking home I can tell it's going to be too hot and humid again today to want to go outside. And it's Sunday; nothing good is open (like the coffee shop, or the library).

Anyway, I was talking about work. The one thing I did find amusing about it was that when the girl I work with showed up, she looked at me and said I got my hair cut. "Me?" I said. "No, I didn't." I'm trying to make it longer; cutting it would be antithetical. "Did you do something to it then? It looks ... feathered, or something." I probably looked doubtful; I felt doubtful. "Do you have it pinned?" "Oh," I said, it dawning on me now. "Yeah, I have barrettes on the sides." They may be blue and sparkly but by hair covers them, so she couldn't see.

And she said, "I knew it was something! I thought, 'Wow, Holly actually looks girly.' "

I couldn't help but laugh at that. I thought of a pretty good argument on the fly, which is that she sees me only at night when I don't care ... but the truth is, of course, that I never care. If the addition of two little barrettes can make me appear remarkably more "girly," I think I'm in trouble. I mean, I don't want to be really girly, but I've no great desire to appear whatever the opposite of "girly" is supposed to be--you can't really say "boy-ey"--but if the threshold is so low that such a small thing makes a pronounced difference, that's not a good sign.

Though I do find it funny.

Comments

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good sign if you're just two barrettes from a complete change of image.

[cosmolinguist]

What a nice perspective. :-) This may just be an indicator of my current silliness, but that made me grin.

Suggestion

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

I think the word you may be looking for is masculine.

Re: Suggestion

[cosmolinguist]

Bothersome space devil!

[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

"boyish"

[cosmolinguist]

I hate it when my brain just forgets that it knows simple words like that. :-)

[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

yeah, we were having this conversation at work the other day about how if you don't use a language you learn that you'll forget it over time...and I realized that I've forgotten a LOT of words since I stopped writing on a regular basis.

[cosmolinguist]

That's interesting. I've noticed that happen with German--and sometimes I forget I ever knew Spanish, much less which words I knew--but for some reason never thought of connecting that notion to my native language, though I think the phenomenon's probably the same with me and English.

In my case, though, I suspect it's not due to a lack of writing (because I haven't written anything in years, unless you count my LiveJournal, which actually means I've written a lot more in the last year than two or three preceding it put together) but to a lack of reading! Reading that isn't for school, anyway. This summer I've actually been re-reading things I really like, just because I can. It's a novelty. Being an English major made me forget that books and words and writing are sometimes used for voluntary leisure purposes.