Since I know everyone wants to hear about it, I’m going to write about my haircut. I’ve been looking a little too much like Megaman lately. Sporting a large unkept mass of thick black locks that blows majestically in the wind. Like just about everything else, Megaman can pull it off (and with incredibly sexy results too). I needed something a little cleaner for my upcoming presentations though.
I went to the Gentleman’s Barber. The woman who did it is my least favorite on staff but she did a passable job. I like the Italian guys (if there’s one thing Italian guys know, it’s hair). My favorite woman wasn’t there. Too bad.Ā I go there because it’s obvious that they take pride in what they do, only doing men’s cuts and really taking their time to do a fine job. They warm up the shaving cream and shave your neck and around the ears with a metal razor too. That’s the best. So much better than the place on campus where they shave you down in about five minutes and hustle you out the door.
Blah.. I can’t believe I actually broadcasted that I was listening to Chesney Hawkes on my last post. I like the hook but the soft synth interludes are cheesey beyond belief. I think it’s on my best of 1992 list. Some people have comfort food, I have comfort music that I retreat into during times of high stress. I’ll listen to club tracks with wicked hooks and the best tracks of 1980-1997, as previously and painstakingly chosen by me. I’ve decided that 1998 was the year that pop music got really crummy. 1999 was the worst year ever.
I think my posts are probably going to be pretty lame for a while. Burn out city. I coded most of the day. Still, I’m feeling fairly decent. I took the bike out for the first time of 2005, worked out and despite having some amusing quirks, my protein structure prediction program has actually started to work.
The Ancient Undergrad 
and when we use the word “bike”, do we mean motorcycle?i have recently decided to become a vampirish biker chick… so i’ll get a bike and then ride up to see you. and we can eat donuts together, and then feel ill. woot.
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A haircut. Interesting. I guess I don’t appreciate a good haircut, probably because it’s such a chore for me to part even with a little bit of all my hair. And I don’t get anything shaved. Eeek!
ryc: I actually listen to lots of rock and metal music I know I don’t seem the type, everyone is surprised to find out after they meet me.
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more info? you wish.:)
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I’m surprised you haven’t photo-whored yourself! (Please do) š
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why, thank you for the compliment! i’m blushing on the inside. and my cuppa coffee (well, mostly milk and sugar with a hint of brown water) is getting cold. so ima go nuke it. do ya’ll say nuke in canada, out of morbid curiousity? or something very stuffy and British like “I go, hence thereforth, to yon microwave oven with intents to heat mine caffeinated beverage!”? Just wondering.
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I haven’t been to the hair dresser’s in YEARS. Then again, my hair is long and straight. It only takes Keith a matter of minutes to cut a straight line to get rid of split ends. I like people playing with my hair though. Megaman should be smiling with his hair all sexy and wavering like that!
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dude how does megamans hand go from gun to hand like instantly…
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Better to have megaman’s hair than Dr. Wiley’s
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Ahhh…it’s always a good day when one’s “protein structure prediction program has actually started to work.” What are you, SMART or something???
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Wow I wish we had hairdressers like that here!! Anywhere you go here it’s always hustle, hustle, hustle. They don’t take their time and on occasion screw something up. Nothing worse than hearing the snipping of scissors followed by “Oops!” Such things have lead me to larn how to cut my own hair.
Megaman can pull anything off, that’s why he’s Megaman. If I’m not mistaken, I think that sprite is from Megaman 2. It’s either 2 or 3. As far as the gun thing, I remember his hand retracted into that round arm part then the cannon barrel took it’s place. Where his hand goes, I have no idea.
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So where’s the pic? I would like to see the before and after…. black locks… yeah they have messed me up in the past… but o well. Hope at least it’s warm there… nothing like getting your hair cut off to have it snow that night. bbrrrrrr!!
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RYC: :S
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I love Megaman! I think when I was little, I had sort of a crush on him. Weird…
The best part of haircuts is getting the hot, lathery, shampoo.
And I don’t think your posts are ‘burn out city’.
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You shoulda kept the wild MegaMan ‘do.
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Congrats on the haircut. I need one too–I’m starting to look like a scraggly hippie. I went for that look in high school, but not these days. I’m with you on the burn-out–school bites.
My fiance’ has a MegaMan shirt. Boy dresses real nice (he has better taste than me, he’s an artist and has great aesthetic sense, I let him dress me), except for the 25% of his wardrobe comprised of video game, Mario, “1Up” Mushroom t-shirts…grrr…
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Ooooooh MegaMan ….
Nothing beats a great haircut and then getting a nice massage at the end of the cutting service. My hubby loved getting haircuts back in Japan. Both on-base and off-base salons/barbershops will usually give them, and boy do they give the best massages. It’s weird how the US won’t do that. ::shrugs::
Must post a pic of yourself.. Please??? lol
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some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts…
i’ve never been shaven. that probably has to do wirth the fact that i never go to barber shops.
i totally agree with you about the pop music of 1999. that was a big year for shit like kid rock, boy bands, mickey mouse club girls morphing into sex-symbols, nu-metal (blugh), etc… as for ’98, however, i thought it was the last time pop was ok. nothing came out that i would by, but decent songs made it to the billboard. this is what i remember about ’98: fat boy slim, harvey danger “flagpole sitter”, eve 6, madonna “ray of light”, will smith “just the two of us”, marylin manson “the dope show”, hole “celebrity skins” & “malibu”, goo goo dolls “dizzy up the girl” releases, etc.. … it was the last time i remember really enjoying the video music awards.
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My parents say “nuke” whenever they warm something up in the microwave. Well, actually just my dad. It’s the more bland, “warm it up in the microwave” for me. Number one rule of looking sexy is no smiling. Megaman knows what he’s doing.If I had Dr. Wily hair, it would be a source of considerable pride and confidence. I would accentuate my silver protuberances with dark shades, a goatee, some strategic piercings and I’d be the coolest professor ever. Yes, it was Megaman 2. It’s a toss up for me whether Megaman 2 or Mike Tyson’s Punch-out is the greatest NES game of all time. I have finished both of them many times.The gentleman’s barber offers to do head massage for $8. I should have done it. Next time… if it’s one of the ladies.There are pics of me still up, you just have to cycle back a bit. I think the last ones I posted as links in January. For the truly corny ones you have to go back to late October 2004 when I got my webcam for my birthday.Yeah, 1998 wasn’t terrible I guess. I still feel it’s comparatively bad.
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oh, lovely, so i talk like your parents. every young adult wants to hear that….and what strategic piercings are you considering? more random curiousity on my part. I have a lot of holes; it’s my hobby. (Obvious statement.)
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