I'm about to storm his house and work from his poolside. This is pissing me off.

If you're working from home anyway, I don't see why you wouldn't.

OK, my apartment is now not embarassingly dirty, although it is still a little messy. That can be handled in a minute. I am dripping with sweat and planning a shower.

Fuck it, you know what? I am going over and working from there. I don't know when exactly I'll have to log in and do actual work, but I can watch email from there as well as from here, and I can run my con call from inside his house.

Internet for the win, yeah?

Ugh, this still feels irresponsible. But it's his last weekend in town, and I can work from inside his house.

Dude, that's what the internet is FOR.

ita, it's not irresponsible in the least. Being on-call means being available if something comes up, it does not mean sitting at home staring at your computer screen on a Sunday (unless it's for fun).

Go for it, ita. As long as the work gets done on schedule, it doesn't matter where you do it.

Just remember to be fully clothed on webcam conference calls, at least from the waist up.

Dude, that's what the internet is FOR.

Seriously.

Dude, that's what the internet is FOR.

What everyone else said

IT IS TOO HOT. And yet, I've planned a meal that requires lighting a fire this evening. (Burgers on the grill.) Am I nuts? Signs point to yes.

(I also turned on the oven, but that's out of necessity - I was suffering from a case of Too Many Peaches from this week's CSA haul and so I have turned most of them into a crisp.)

I swear to god, I have told my mother a thousand times that I was going to give her my CSA squah products, including earlier this week, and yet? I just called, and she just bought some. I'm still bringing them over, because they will just rot in my fridge.

Hey guys, love to hear your take on this!

I had a little epiphany last night as I was watching "Psycho" (accompanied by SF Symphony!!). Janet Leigh and Vera Miles both had grandma hair. Only of course it wasn't grandma hair in their day - it was the chic style. So I guess the women who were their age (or younger, but influenced) in 1960, as they aged, stayed with what had been trendy in their youth. Hence, middle-aged women in the 70's (Partridge family mom and Carol Brady, for example) wore their hair like that, because it was what was in fashion when they were teens/young women. And the youth in the 70's wore looser locks like Farrah Fawcett, etc. If someone had Janet Leigh's hairstyle well into the 1970s, 1980's, etc, it conveyed a stuck in time and old-fashioned aesthetic.

It made me wonder if hair is a lot like music - they say the music you embrace as a teen/young person is the music that stays with you for all of your life in a lot of ways. Do you think it's the same with hair?

It got me thinking about the people I know who seem happiest and healthiest and not stuck in ruts: they're the ones who've allowed for new music to enter their lives and don't mind switching their hair and trying out new things. I think of my biological mother and how she had the exact same hairstyle for her ENTIRE life: long hair to her waist, with bangs. That hairstyle was super hot in 1965. But she never changed it. It's funny because I've had a zillion different styles of hair, but I've had bangs a lot. And one of the reasons I am growing them out yet again is that I don't ever ever ever want to be stuck in time.