I have a white friend who wore her hair about half an inch long for a few years in her late 30s. She's bi and worked in a college town where the social signifiers like super short hair weren't terribly important anyway. I thought she looked great! It really brought out her eyes and cheekbones. But apparently the upkeep got old (trimming it weekly) so she's growing her hair out now.

I agree, for white women anything shorter than a pixie cut feels "alternative" in some way (or possibly "cancer patient".)

I got a high-and-tight when I was at Fort Benning, but that was because there was only a barber on base who didn't know how to do a pixie cut. I'd never gotten the courage to buzz it, and I won't now, with my hair so thin.

Homeowners: as I'm searching through listings for apartments, I'm starting to get the idea that to get what I want, I'll need to actually get a house with a mortgage. There's a house that looks like that would be less than I'm paying now on rent, with more space (and if it's mine, I can do whatever I want, and have extra cash for higher heating bills and repairs).

But, that's scary!

That aside, I wouldn't be signing myself up for mysterious and unknown-to-me homeowner expenses --ooh, property tax, damn.

I had your haircut for a while in my twenties, ita. But I was very deliberately also aiming for androgyny.

So Emmett and I have to carry our old couch down three flights of stairs, and then the new couch back up those three flights of stairs.

What's the over/under on how many times we yell "Pivot! Piv-OTT!" at each other today?

My bet is on "Left! No, other left!"

I get a pang of jealousy every time I see someone with my haircut, because it takes me a couple beats to remember I have it too. But I do feel I've been lightly rapped on my knuckles when I see it accessorised nicely--big earrings and strong lipstick which I rarely remember to do.

Traditionally black women are supposed to be spending so much time and effort to copy white hair, and here's a haircut we can both have without processing or agita, and we're the only ones with it.

I'm lazy, so I often let it go three months between cuts, but a sharp sharp person wouldn't really need to do it more than once a month. Once every two is what I tell myself I'll start doing--but apart from those visits I do absolutely nothing to my hair (I do wash and moisturise my scalp, but it's not about the hair). V. simple.

Watching the pilot of Starsky and Hutch, and they've been wet and shirtless twice, both times with shoulder holsters still, and the second time they had basically the following exchange:

"Who are we going to trust then?"
"Who we normally trust. Each other."

Gay fish in a slashy barrel. No wonder why the movie went how it did.

Lawn is mowed and edged, the sidewalk and porch are swept (not super thoroughly, but swept), birds are fed, goldfinches are feasting, and the drip irrigation is dripping. And I cleverly chose to do the bulk of the work while I couldn't get to b.org, so that worked out well for me.

I still can't tell how effective the push mower is - I can see cut grass being flung from the blades so it's doing something, but I had actually trimmed it down to pretty close to the height I set the mower at, so I can't see any difference in the finished lawn. But that is all part of my plan - next week I will lower the height of the blades on notch and keep doing that until my lawn is super short and will hopefully be able to withstand the occasional week without being mowed at all.

I know keeping the grass longer is healthier for the lawn, but I never intended to have a healthy lawn. I don't feed it, I don't water it, it just keeps growing.

I think if I cut my hair that short it would be perceived as A Statement. It may be that anything ita does with her hair is seen as A Statement?

Is it remarkable because I brought it up, or is it unusual in and of itself? I'm trying to imagine white or Asian women with 2mm of hair, around my age or older, conservatively dressed, perhaps with kids, and it doesn't feel like I'm reaching for the memory centres of my brain.

I know many people with that haircut, but it's much less common to see a femme white girl with it, whereas there are plenty of black women with that hair who rock earrings and cleavage. (And many no don't, but I'm less likely to assume gay)

Watching the pilot of Starsky and Hutch, and they've been wet and shirtless twice, both times with shoulder holsters still, and the second time they had basically the following exchange:

Did you see the part where assassins killed a couple making out in a car because they mistook them for Starsky and Hutch?