Where There’s a Whim, There’s a Way

I’ve decided, on a whim, to cut off all my hair. It’s so fucking itchy at the moment! I don’t have lice or fleas or anything other infestation but I spent today at my aunt and uncle’s place in the hinterlands and we spent a bit of a time walking through their jungle yard and watching their dogs and cat play in their creek and I suspect mosquitoes or some other winged, biting insects have just bitten my scalp and hairline. It driving me absolutely mental, not to mention it has so much product it in from last nights faux hawk. I could wash it, but then I might not have anything to whine about. So anyways, I’m cutting off my mullet and having my sidies trimmed as well as an overall tidy up. I just have too much hair and it’s shitting me and now that it’s all itchy I just want it gone.

Taming my hair down will also help me feel more like a teacher. I can be a little reserved when it comes to pracs, especially the first couple of weeks and I find it really helpful if I try and be “Teacher Jen” who wears teachers clothes and looks and behaves like a teacher. At uni they always drum into us that teaching is 90% performance art and 10% actual learning, if you can’t captivate your auidence you are pretty much dead in the water. So faking the “Teacher Jen” persona for a little while until I get into the groove of things until I can do it on my own helps me, and “Teacher Jen” has a pretty normal hairstyle.

Bestie would probably prefer her wedding photos to be mullet free, and I can’t say I will be thrilled to look back in 20 years time and think “Gosh, I was rocking a killer mullet back in the day, I’m glad I kept that for the wedding”. It’s not too difficult to re-grow should I miss it terribly and so long as I still have enough hair to make my faux hawk when I need it, I’ll be ok.

(I dedicate that part of my post to Adam, because he thinks I don’t talk about my hair nearly enough

My most recent other decision I’ve made on a whim relates to heels. As a rule, I don’t wear heels. I am pretty close to being 6′ tall as it is so gaining extra height isn’t so much an issue for me, plus I am terribly unco, plus I am scared of looking like a tranny being so tall, with short hair, wearing heels. It’s only now, after the brain candy, that I’ve realized there is no reason I can’t wear heels. I don’t actually look remotely guy-ish. I have a girly face, a girly haircut, a fairly sizeable rack and a curvy, girl figure, I would have to be one of the best drag queens around if I was really a guy and looked like this. The unco-ness is still an issue, but I could learn, plenty of unintelligent people get around on heels so I figure as a reasonably bright person I could work it out. I tried on some gorgeous heels on Saturday, I regret not getting them quite badly. One pair was a size too large so they were slipping off my feet but they were absolutely gorgeous, thick heeled, black suede with a peep toe and a little bow across the top. The other ones were kind of silver, platform, gladiator sandals with a bunch of criss crossed straps over the top of the foot. Entirely impractical for day to day wear, but gorgeous and very hard to fall off because of all the straps. Being receptive to the heel has opened up a whole new world of shoe shopping…because thats exactly what I need…more encouragement to buy shoes.

My final whim relates to dresses. I found one I really like on Etsy. I’m not really into the light colored fabric, or the fact it’s $130, but the overall style (except a less full skirt) and decoration on the neckline are tickling my fancy. I am going to have a bash at making something like that tomorrow. I have no place to wear a fancy dress like that, especially for the next couple of months, but that’s alright. It will probably take me that long to get it to a state that I like it!

Hope you’ve been having a rocking long weekend. Hooray for the Easter Bunny!! What have you done with your time off? Made any decisions of a whim this weekend, or is that just me!?