I declare Juliana's hair to be hotter than Manteca astroturf and give a big thumbs up on the silver low-tops.

Seconded. How many do we need to open up Lightbulbs?

The British university discussion reminded me of one of my classes the first week of AP Literature and Composition. We'd had to read Oedipes Rex over the summer. After we got back, our teacher gave us this essay on it to read. It was written by a professor at Oxford, and was basically, "I have asked this same question of many upper-level Oxford students. Their responses can be divided into three categories. [explanation of each response] Here's why they're all wrong. And remember, these are upper-level Oxford students, who should be smarter than this, but apparently, they're not."

We had to read that for homework. The next day, our teacher asked us what we thought of the article. There were a few tentative "Well, he had an interesting point about ..." answers, and then finally, one girl said, "I thought he was a pretentious asshole." The teacher grinned and said, "Well, yes. In this article, he certainly was." Then we spent the rest of the class period discussing rhetorical devices, starting with straw man (for the article) and ad hominem (for the girl's response to it.)

Somewhere, I've still got a list of "Twelve Important Rhetorical Devices." We were supposed to try to make our writing more interesting by using at least one (and using it properly) in each paper we wrote.

Does your hair curl?

Razored out layered bob

Cute!

I've been pimping this cut for a while

Juliana-esque

Short shag - simple but pretty

Pretty - would work well with Beej's face

Cutting edge, baybee!

One of my electives was Bio 101. Irritating to me, since I'd chosen maths and the hard sciences at age 16, so why would I want to draw more dissection candidates. But if I hadn't fucked up Analysis of Algorithms the first time round, I'd have been out in three. One of my IB friends made it out (and hit her goal of 'Masters by 21'), and the other had the same deal as me--needing 3 years+1 course to get out.

Lovely!

I should mention that I have cowlicks from hell...which seem to migrate to various places on my head without notice.

I love this one ...a lot.

Bobs must be avoided at all costs, given the heaviness of my jawline, they make me look a bit bobbleheaded.

I love this one ...a lot.

I've had that one. Very fun, and recovers very nicely. (Again, though, product is Your Friend.)

(Again, though, product is Your Friend.)

Which product?

I tried Aveda's hair wax once with disastrous results.

Hmm... I guess I am unusual around here. I don't make a lot of judgments based on what people are wearing. Part of it comes from moving to CA - clothes are much more casual here - and I just can't get all worked up about fashionable but causal clothes. I tend to dress slightly more formally at work than most of my co workers, but that is for me. I have a friend J, who still has the taste of your average 5 yr old - as many bright colors as possible. Yes, people give her greif about her clothes, but she is a generous and hardworking - so if she wants to clash - so be it. In general , I don't make judgments about clothes for little kids. For anyone over the age of 13 - some sense of the occasion is enough.

That cut would work very well for you, Beej.

If wax based product doesn't work, there are other options.

If your hair is thick you might not want to matte it down with wax.

My hair is an odd combination of thick in weight but fine in strand...if that makes any sense. I never could use typical barrettes, they just fall out. But when I get a cut, it looks as if a small mammal has leapt from my head.

Weighty products don't seem to work, but I need lift!