New juliana hair = goooood.

I like the silver Converse.

I ... have nothing else right now. Brain is mush, and I have a "hey, tell me about this editor job that is open on your team" meeting with someone this afternoon.

This - juliana = trouble?

I am denied! I have no permission!

OMG I just bought the low-tops and had them shipped expedited for $$$ because I really NEED to have them for the show on the 15th. jeez, rock and roll is an expensive lifestyle.

Also, they are a 1/2 size larger then I'd normally get in Converse because they didn't have my size in the silver.

I'm having post-purchase trauma!!!

Knowing that I ended up with something like 36 IB points (perhaps I misremember?). Which seems like it couldn't possibly be right (and the "UCAS points" I'm not even touching)

Four A levels was a lot, but not startlingly so, at my school. If you wanted to do three you were normal, and if you wanted two...well, I think you went to school somewhere else.

I cannot imagine doing five. Four was a solid load. We did S levels on top of that (I took 2) instead of more A. I shiver at the thought. I guess you could stagger it--I'm not sure how we handled Maths and Further Maths. We may have covered the Maths syllabus the first year, and Further the second. It was still half our courseload, though.

How do IBs work? They get you a year off university, don't they?

Vortex, obviously you don't need any ideas.

Nice cut Juliana. Dramatic and really suits your face shape.

I need inspiration for a haircut coming tomorrow. I've let this cut grow out to point where the bangs reach to my chin. Leaving me looking a big Gram Parsons.

I'm looking for something that will be very easy to care for given my training schedule until October (including much wearing of hats), and yet sassy and fun. I may be 47, but I refuse to give into the 'ladies who golf' short style.

Any thoughts for a good cut that accommodate a need to at least partially cover my forehead?

I am denied! I have no permission!

Totally denied? If you go in through the link I posted, you should be fine. (I friends-lock all pictures of myself, but the Guest Pass should work.)

How do IBs work? They get you a year off university, don't they?

Depends on the university. At most of them, though, at the time I took them, they functioned much like our AP exams--you could get credit for an intro-level class (biology, english, whatever), but only if you got a 6 or 7 (out of 7) on a higher level exam (IB diploma=3HL and 3 subsidiary level). Which...yeah.

So I ended up taking AP exams also. In other words, was not in class for most of May, due to taking five IB exams and I think seven APs? Something like that... (hnmm. I think I took lower calc, chem, and two econ ones junior year, so...english lang and lit, spanish lang and lit, bio, higher calc....am I missing one?)

lisah, how do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?

Thanks, y'all. The discussion was basically "okay, it needs to work under a helmet, but layering too much won't work because that gives me pointy head. Spikiness is also Right Out, unless you want me to use a lot of wax on my hair. Go!" And then we hung out at the bar. I love my hairdresser.

I'm looking for something that will be very easy to care for given my training schedule until October

I'm sure Hec will have some ideas, but I think bangs + spiky in back might work. Maybe.

layering too much won't work because that gives me pointy head

This is an important consideration. I have been known to succumb to pin-headedness with too much layering...but I really like spiky...I'd love to take off the sweaty hat, run my fingers upward and come away looking sassy. Is that even possible?