At my new job one of the men has a beard that he gathers into a kind of forward facing ponytail. It's a few inches long--just long enough that it doesn't fall out of the rubber band. It's . . . a look.

I have a few white hairs coming in. They were really starting to pop during unemployment (stress), but now there seems to be fewer of them.

Another coworker dyed chunks of her hair purple and bright orange. So my idea of getting violet lowlights after my nephew's wedding looks like it'll fit in with the office culture just fine. Ah, academia.

I work at a nursing school, and none of the students (or I am presuming, professors) can have hair that is a "non-natural" color.

That sucks. I will root against the Rangers in Round 3 because they made you sad.

In our household it's an easy calculus. We hate the Rangers and we hated the Canadiens, so go Tampa Bay!!

Also, sorry, but also GO DUCKS!

I work at a nursing school, and none of the students (or I am presuming, professors) can have hair that is a "non-natural" color.

So I wonder if a young person could make the case for silver?

Is silver significantly different from platinum?

There's nothing quite like losing all your hair and having it grow back to discover all at once how much gray you have. The first time around, my hair was about half gray and half dark blonde, making for an appallingly mousy color that I remedied with chemicals as soon as possible. This time, it's all gray, but at least it has some nice variations. It's also wispy and sticks out in all directions, so I'm still wearing scarves. Perhaps I need to take up wearing a red fedora.

I just fed some trolls on the NY Times site. I may be losing my mind.

Is silver significantly different from platinum?

As a color-color, no. As a hair color, yes. I think of platinum as a blonde hair color, and this is really the metal color.

Perhaps I need to take up wearing a red fedora.

That sounds like a good plan! I'm also trying to promote fashion turbans, just generally.

I have talked to a human at the hospital and learned one reason why the bills make no sense. Unlike every other business, they don't assign the account number to the person. Instead, they assign the account number to the service, so they generate a new account number for each different service I have. The mind boggles.

Oh Lord, Ginger. Glad you talked to a human that had some answers (regardless of how stupid the answer was) at least?

When did 3-4 inch long beards become fashionable again?

Heh. Working with brewers, I can assure you, it is definitely a thing in the beer world. That dude's beard in AoS was terrible though.

This Time piece lets you determine what your name would be if born today, based on the rank in popularity of your name when you were born: [link]

My name, if I was born now, would be Harper. Makes face.