unhappy!

The past two days have been the worst I've felt in ages when there hasn't been major dental work inflicted on me within a 24-hour radius. I spent some time coughing and some time with everything hurting, and then today I had a headache that quite literally felt like someone was pressing something pointy and hard into my skull right above the back of my neck. I'd lie down on the couch and doze off, thank god, and then wake up with my hands shaking.

... Just thought I'd share that with you all. Who knows, maybe excruciating pain shared is excruciating pain divided into very small fractions.

and now

My hair is gone. Chopped it off. Ponytail ready for sending in. What's left is sort of collar-length, or maybe not quite - it curls (well, if I pull it) under my chin in the front, and covers the nape of my neck but not the knob at the top of my spine (which would be knobbier if I were skinnier, but you know what I mean) in the back, with some layers that are even shorter.

( here's where it was. )

I'm not traumatized, as I've done this before (I've actually had it shorter, though not for donation reasons, but chin-length is about as short as I've ever really been comfortable with), but I am as always a little perplexed by how different it feels. I can't toss my hair over my shoulder, obviously, as it doesn't reach my shoulder and thus if I toss my head to throw it back it will fall right back to the front again. And my scalp feels so different, now that every hair hanging from it is shorter. Like, my hair has never been that heavy, but nevertheless, my head feels a lot lighter.

( here's where it is now. )

Will have to concentrate on not overusing the shampoo, the next couple of times I wash it.