Go inverted bob! Choose inverted bob!

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So, I'm thinking maybe an inverted bob: [link] [link], but with bangs.

It's a classic look, and would pretty on you.

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Talking about your personal life or getting "too personal" is frowned upon, which I think explains a lot of the Northeast reputation for being cold or distant to strangers.

Hear hear! (clings to Boston living and our cold hard ways)

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School types - I'm filling out my diploma application (yay) and one of the questions is whether or not I want my SSN printed on my transcript. At the moment I'm not planning on more school for my masters, so a transcript is kind of a non-issue. I think. Should I say yes, does it matter?

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Hear hear! (clings to Boston living and our cold hard ways)

Heh. Yeah, but then again, this is exactly what led to my grandmother falling down and breaking her hip and not bothering to call anyone (or take anything more than an aspirin) until she had scooted herself to the top of the stairs, noticed that the litterbox needed cleaning, and cleaned it. She finally called my mom--not 911, mind you, but my mom--a couple of hours later when she still couldn't stand up and the aspirin began to wear off.

Suzi, I would say "no." It probably won't matter, but why expose your SS# more than necessary?

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Talking about your personal life or getting "too personal" is frowned upon, which I think explains a lot of the Northeast reputation for being cold or distant to strangers. For my grandmothers' generation, asking people you don't know well any kind of question is intrusive, bad manners.

And meeting people's eyes when you talk to them is a threat or a come-on--though I'm accused of avoiding people because I hate looking into people's eyes when I'm talking to them.

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So, I'm thinking maybe an inverted bob: [link] [link], but with bangs.

It's a classic look, and would pretty on you.

You don't have any other suggestions? I was hoping -- kind of expecting -- you would.

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Yeah, but then again, this is exactly what led to my grandmother falling down and breaking her hip and not bothering to call anyone (or take anything more than an aspirin)

My grandmother is the same way. She went into the hospital last week (she's out now, and fine) in the wee hours of the morning and instructed the nurses not to call my mom until 6:30, when she knew that she'd be up and getting ready for work.

My appreciation as originally expressed is mostly for the cultural discouragement of public interaction. Which, um, sounds bad when I say it.

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Certainly my panic sort of melted when I saw her at the airport. Her first words were, "You're a sight for sore eyes," hugging me, which was kinda sweet. She just looked so ... Life Tired.

Dear GOD that is no way for an eighteen year old girl to look.

I'm so glad she has her Aunt Cass.

There are a couple of shades of meaning. It can mean someone from New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachussetts--and I can't remember if Connecticut is on the list or not), with a certain stereotype of thriftiness and humorlessness lurking in the wings. It's also a term people in the American South use to refer to people from the North.

Yeah. I vaguely remember some humor thing or another that said:

In the south a Yankee is anyone from the North. In the North a Yankee is anyone from New England. In New England a Yankee is anyone from uptight and among the uptight a Yankee is someone from Maine and in Maine a Yankee is anyone from.. I don't know, the north of maine? Or something? It might have been funny in its original form

Ah the Confederate flag... the thing that amazes me is that it's, by definition, pretty Unamerican. Like ACTUALLY Unamerican. Teh Gays, Democrats, Communist Party Members, Feminists... anyone else who ever has been or ever will be called "Unamerican" (and often enough by people with Confederate flag pride) never actually tried to split from America, never tried to literally make America not happen anymore. Dude.

Teppy, I don't think I've ever seen you look like ASS. It is unpossible.

Other than a certain train platform in Chicago once upon a time I concurr.

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Other than a certain train platform in Chicago once upon a time I concurr.

Unless she was mooning you, I still say unpossible.

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