Kudos Ladies:

For your uncanny ability to grow out and sustain long hair. I myself gave it up on Monday. It wasn't even as grueling a question as it had been on prior days. My usual arguments for keeping it were "I'll never have another opportunity to grow it out," "I've never had long hair," "I want to put it into corn rows," "Not cutting my hair is a good way to save $10 a moneth," and "I've always kind of wanted a pony tail." However, all of those arguments crumbled beneath the reality of it all.

That reality being "Holy crap I use alot of Shampoo and Conditioner right now," "Grr, my ears are freezing because I can't wear a hat," "Drat my hair is frozen again," "I don't want to spend money on a blow dryer," "No I didn't get attacked by an angry bird, but I did take a nap," and "When the wind hits my hair just right I look like a parakeet." All of which were quite tiring and very much inconvienient. It was mostly the frozen hair and inability to wear a hat that won me over. So I took myself down to Park Avenue Salon, thus far my favorite hair place in Hays, and got the lot of it snipped off.

However, she left the side burns. Which at first was somewhat bothersome, but then I got to looking at it and said "Hot dang, those actually look good." Then I promptly left them as they were.

But I must give all the long-haired ladies props for putting up with it. Though I can't say how much of that is by choice or by the social ideals that have been driven into your skulls, but you pull it off nicely. I, for the time being, will stick with short, but perhaps give it another go when I'm in the mother country: England.

Luv,
Clay