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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.

ita, I hope you did go. And that people are there.

Speaking of people, short video of -t and Juliana from yesterday [link]

Sorry about the camera work, but I still like it.

I'm glad to hear you are going to be working from Colin's poolside, as opposed to your apartment. Clearly poolside is the sensible option.

We are going to go have lunch/brunch with grandma and then try to convince her to come to the pool with us. Since we're going to the Y instead of Colin's house, I'm guessing she'll decline.

javachik, I don't think it's necessarily associated with happiness or the lack thereof, but I do believe that one can get stuck in a hair rut.

Yeah, probably not "happiness" per se. But I can think of other corollaries gleaned from unscientific personal experience.

And what's interesting to me isn't necessarily a "rut" or not, but just the way that we evolve, or not. The way we are influenced by trends in our life, and when we are most vulnerable to them and when we're not.

I actually don't think that people get more closed off as they age, but that those who are naturally closed off feel more comfortable being that way. You are allowed to limit change as you age. You can say you don't care about newfangled music or books or styles without it seeming odd. I am lucky that I have had a lot of older people in my life who remained engaged and interested in the new. I want to be curious and excited about culture and places as long as I live and I hope to be so.

Javachik - I know I tend to get stuck in my music ruts, but I also love discovering new music. Interesting idea. Will need to think on that some more.

Got another update on J. The neck portion on the surgery "went well" and now they are working on her wrist. I wonder if there is a Giants get well anything I could get her. Hmmmm.

Yeah, not at all trying to be or sound judgmental (except in the case of bio-mom whose hair was the absolute least of her problems).