Fashion for Writers

I am really attached to having short, curly hair. I don’t know where this comes from, but anyway, after having one of those I’m-feeling-emotional-and-am-going-to-cut-my-hair-really-short-attacks, I couldn’t perm my hair for a while. One woman I went to haughtily told me that I’d have to wait five months to get a perm. But then I went to Above Ground (where I’d done the fashion show a few months back), and Cookie told me that if I just waited till right before I left Ann Arbor, I’d be able to have a perm, albeit a short one — which was fine by me. So now I have curly hair again.

I’m flying out to Taiwan at 1:40 AM tonight. It’s a 13-hour flight, and I haven’t been to Taiwan in years, but I’ll be doing considerable blogging from there, I imagine. The shopping there is incredible in terms of price and scope, plus I’m going to be heading out into some rural areas with my mother with my camera and notebook, taking notes for future stories.

Goals for the summer include:

• Start learning basic Latin. Chris started teaching me this morning, and I’ll really dig into it as soon as I get back from Taiwan. We’re very excited about this venture. He wants to get a whiteboard.
• Write at least 100 pages of my novel that are presentable enough to show my thesis reader in September. 
• Get married in July without having a nervous breakdown.
• Fix my super unhealthy eating habits and eating-related psychology. (I weigh considerably more now than the last time I went to Taiwan, and the last time I went, a saleslady said that I was obviously so fat because I was pregnant. But this has less to do with my decision to fix my unhealthy eating habits, and more to do with the fact that I’ve spent way too much energy in the last ten years thinking about my negative body image.)

& Happy Mother’s Day!

Formaggio Kitchen, Cambridge, MA. I just got back from a brief trip to Boston and it was chockablock with friends, good eats (is there such a thing as too many good eats?) and lots of walking (to mitigate the good eats). Many thanks to my friend Aaron for hosting me, Emily and Don for good times, and Formaggio Kitchen for allowing me to take pictures of their fine wares. (244 Huron Ave., Cambridge)