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Random shit, because I am bored. (I'll answer that meme post later.)

The evolution of Laura, visually.

( These are some scans of my sketchbook from middle/high school. Warning: large images and bad teenage 'art' )

I am unsatisfied with my responses to the senior year meme. So I decided that, since senior year was such a nonentity for me, I would redo my answers. Only this time it's about 10th grade instead of senior year.... Because in 10th grade I actually felt somewhat involved in high school life instead of being emotionally numb and just killing time until I could move far away.

What, obsess about the past? Me?

( Sophomore Year Meme )

I'm tired and distracted today.

( I had an awesome New Years Eve )

( My old friend Mike visited me on Monday )

Saw "Mystic River" with soulmate815 last night. I quite liked it; certainly won't be devastated if Sean Penn beats Johnny for the Oscar.

Then we met up with jaydk for drinks, and ended up being out until almost 4am. (How did that happen?) It was fun, though--good conversation. Had a debate about RPF, which amuses me because I don't read and am very squicked by RPF, but I'm always the one defending it.

And we talked about conventions. jaydk and I are definitely going to DragonCon. Woo hoo! So, who else is going? Or is it too early to decide?

I can't get anyone to come with me to WriterCon. So maybe I will end up looking for a roommate after all. Or staying in my own room, but that's kind of expensive. Although soulmate815 said she might go, depending on which fic writers are there. Isn't it neat how fanfic writers are sort of minor celebrities themselves? Going to a con to meet a fic writer that you admire ... that's cool.

I'm going to the Creation con in NJ in March. Must figure out transportation ... I guess I can wait until closer to the actual con date to figure that out, though. I figure I'll come on Saturday, stay the night, and leave on Sunday. Probably will travel with soulmate815.

I'm not going to the Cleveland Vulkon. Must write and ask for refund soon.

I am going to Moonlight Rising, but I haven't a clue how I'm going to get there. Must figure that out.

Still have to decide about Toronto Trek.

( decade meme; results not exactly shocking )

( high school meme; aka 'one seriously depressing meme' )

1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short?

Naturally straight, with just a bit of a wave. (I was born with curls, but my mom cut them off and they never grew back). Currently a bit past my shoulders. Thick, but very damaged.

2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime?

It's been just about every length; I had it ulta-short at some point in my childhood, but I tend to like it long; it's been to my waist a few times.

It's naturally brown. I dyed it red when I was 14 or 15, and then just kept dying it redder and redder. Eventually I bleached it and dyed it Special Effects Blood Red (Special Effects stays in better than Manic Panic, although Manic Panic has the cooler name). You have to re-dye it a lot, otherwise it fades to pink and orange.

Then it was black, then black with bleached blond roots (which looks really cool in a French braid), then black with red streaks all around, then black with two red chunks in the front.

Then black with blue and purple streaks, then just purple streaks, then red streaks again.

Then I let it grow out and did it lighter brown, then lighter and lighter, so now it's pretty light blond.

3. How do your normally wear your hair?

I hate dealing with my hair. It's usually back in a ponytail, or just down without any styling.

4. If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like?

I'd love to do the blue and purple streaks again (with black hair), but it's a such a pain to maintain.

5. Ever had a hair disaster? What happened?

What other people would call disasters, I call opportunities, or experiments. :)

ETA: I thought of a hair disaster after all. In high school (I think 10th grade?) my little group of complete-freaks-and-weirdos friends starting going from "grunge" to "goth," and part of it was dying our hair black. (I was the first, go me; I set a trend).

So we went to my friend Chris's house and peer-pressured our silly dorky friend Joe into letting us dye his hair black. (Joe, btw, is now a gigantic ultra-muscular marine with a blond crew cut, which terrifies me to no end). It ended up being all of us squeezed into Chris's bathroom, with Joe bent over the bathtub and everyone crowded around him. (And Chris's parents wondering what the hell was going on).

Danielle got the gloves and the hair dye, but she was so slow (I swear to god she was dying each *strand* individually) that I joined in to help. But she had the gloves, so I used my bare hands to work the dye through his hair. Also, Mike kept poking Joe, and Joe kept reaching behind and grabbing him/trying to hit him. But since Joe's head was in the bathtub he couldn't see what he was grabbing, and several times he grabbed Mike in a very sensitive place. So we all were falling over laughing, and poor Joe had no clue what was going on.

So then after we'd dyed Joe's hair, Danielle and I made Chris and Joe let us do their makeup, and we made them up Marilyn Manson style. (God only knows why Chris had this makeup in his bedroom to begin with). They were all goth through high school (Chris got sent home the first day of senior year because he was wearing a dress and makeup), but I'm proud to say that was the very first time they ever got made up. (And ironic that Danielle and I did it, since neither of us wore makeup ourselves at that point, except maybe a bit of lipstick on occasion).

Oh, yeah, anyway. So the disaster was that my hands up to mid-arm were dyed black, and it wouldn't come out, so I had to scrub my hands with bleach.