I appear to have made a terrible mistake. I think I wasn't clear enough about wanting my hair to be cut below my shoulders. Not above.

So. In the interest of keeping me from losing my shit, I am begging everyone who sees me for the next year to not mention my hair.

I will not cry. I will not.

It's only hair.

holy god. i forgot that i need a jacket photo.

oh god.

It's only hair, it will grow, and it probably looks a lot better than you think it does.

It's only hair, it will grow, and it probably looks a lot better than you think it does.

What Plei said. Plus, give it a few days to settle from the haircut, for you to play with it. It'll be fine, I promise.

What Plei said. I bet it looks great. Also, it takes a while to get used to any change, and it will be growing in the meantime. I have had this happen a hundred times: I think my haircut is too short. Two weeks later, I like it. Am I used to it, or did it just grow enough not to be too short anymore? Who knows.

It would be an excellent excuse to dress up like Princess Leia or something for your jacket photo.... t runs away really quickly

From CNN's story about the Porter Goss resignation...

Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner told CNN that Goss may have resigned because he was passed over for the position of director of national intelligence, which went to Negroponte.

Yeah, it wasn't because of potential scandal about parties with hookers, but because he got passed over for a "better" job.

The agency was recently rocked when Mary McCarthy was fired, reportedly for allegedly leaking information about secret prisons to The Washington Post. McCarthy's lawyer denies that she was the source for the Pulitzer Prize-winning story.

Don't fire the people who created and now run the secret torture prisons, fire and prosecute the person who told the press about it.

I hate (almost) everybody.

I think I wasn't clear enough about wanting my hair to be cut below my shoulders. Not above.

Oh, no! I was afraid that picture would be interpreted on the short side.

I am dead certain that you look great, Allyson, but I am also sure that you don't want to hear it so I won't mention it again.

Allyson pretty much always looks better than she thinks.

The topic reminds me that not only am I in dire need of a 6mm buzz and a bleach job, but also that running out of my one true product means it looks almost as bad as it can get.

Maybe tonight, but I really should go to the gym.

Boss² doesn't like the project plan I submitted. It was developed with the help of a non-developer who had also never seen the application that needed to be upgraded. He's the only guy I could get to come to my meetings. So he wins.

Help desk has remote control of my desktop for the third time in two days. I think I can write their script now.

t /pulling a bon and crackberrying the interweb from beside her laptop

Sean, you need better sources for your Peter Goss dirt.

Now, corrupt contractors saucing up Agency officials and members of Congress to get contracts and free money. Hospitality suites where the saucing takes place. Hookers in the mix. It's going on for more than a decade, various members of the key committees in the mix. Goss, former member of one of those committees, appoints one of the key players in all this mess as the number three guy at CIA?