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Nerd Alert
Feb. 1st, 2003 10:23 amOh my. Last night, Friday night, I spent my time working, going to Walmart (yeah, yeah, I know it's the Evil Empire but I needed cheap toilet paper in bulk), and learning how to knit. So let's recap: Friday night, Walmart, and knitting. Somehow when I envisioned my twenties, this wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
*sigh*
So good news, I now have eyebrows AND eyelashes. It's a very good day in the world indeed. One of the estheticians at the salon next door took pity on my blondness and gave me a comp session. She tinted my eyelashes black, my eyebrows golden, and waxed and shaped everything into submission. I feel a little Joan Crawford after the whole experience, but I think the overall effect is aesthetically pleasing--just keep me away from the wire hangers.
The esthetician, P, also had a long talk with me. She's going through a divorce and she wanted to get some time alone to discuss what was really going on with me. She'd noticed that I'd been down lately and suspected that it had something to do with D. She talked to me about her own struggles, how to be stronger than the pain, and then began to talk about my future. As a preface, she's a very religious woman, but she made an interesting point...she said that she expected great things from my generation and, in turn, me. She said that the sense of hopelessness that's settled upon this generation was a creation of the devil...and that once that illusion was dispelled, wondrous things would happen. You can dismiss all that if you like, but it begs an interesting question...once the collective sense of hopelessness is cast off (as I really hope it will be), what's possible? Once I learn to believe in myself, what sort of power will I find? Who will I become? What will I be able to do?
At the very least, it's a few things to think about.
I spoke with A yesterday and told him that he was a good egg and that in a totally "not coming on to you" way, I'd like to make him a bigger part of my life. He said likewise. I'm excited about that. I need an infusion of new people in my life, particularly new men. It gives me a little faith in the gender.
I finally managed to get a day off and today is it. I'm off to San Francisco...
*sigh*
So good news, I now have eyebrows AND eyelashes. It's a very good day in the world indeed. One of the estheticians at the salon next door took pity on my blondness and gave me a comp session. She tinted my eyelashes black, my eyebrows golden, and waxed and shaped everything into submission. I feel a little Joan Crawford after the whole experience, but I think the overall effect is aesthetically pleasing--just keep me away from the wire hangers.
The esthetician, P, also had a long talk with me. She's going through a divorce and she wanted to get some time alone to discuss what was really going on with me. She'd noticed that I'd been down lately and suspected that it had something to do with D. She talked to me about her own struggles, how to be stronger than the pain, and then began to talk about my future. As a preface, she's a very religious woman, but she made an interesting point...she said that she expected great things from my generation and, in turn, me. She said that the sense of hopelessness that's settled upon this generation was a creation of the devil...and that once that illusion was dispelled, wondrous things would happen. You can dismiss all that if you like, but it begs an interesting question...once the collective sense of hopelessness is cast off (as I really hope it will be), what's possible? Once I learn to believe in myself, what sort of power will I find? Who will I become? What will I be able to do?
At the very least, it's a few things to think about.
I spoke with A yesterday and told him that he was a good egg and that in a totally "not coming on to you" way, I'd like to make him a bigger part of my life. He said likewise. I'm excited about that. I need an infusion of new people in my life, particularly new men. It gives me a little faith in the gender.
I finally managed to get a day off and today is it. I'm off to San Francisco...
