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May. 23rd, 2002 06:52 amYou remember the oddest things. This morning I was recalling a couple of them.
Years ago, a girl I was dating had long hair and so did I. We wound up spending a lot of shower time picking up hairs from each other as the water dislodged them, and putting them on the shower wall. This was mainly for the good of the drain (two long-haired people that shed often), but was also a neat, kind of comforting grooming ritual. Naturally we'd remove the hair from the tile wall after showering.
And several years ago, on the first houseboat trip I went on, there were spiders out on the water. Appparently they were ballooning spiders or some relative, because there were long, thin drifts of spiderweb floating free out over the water, not attached to anything, and the webs and spiders just floated by. It meant that sitting up top you got the occasional random spiderweb (and more rarely, a spider) settling on you that you had to remove, but it was also pretty neat. Sitting further back on the boat meant that the boat would catch most of them for you on the big shade on the front.
Houseboats are excellent.
Years ago, a girl I was dating had long hair and so did I. We wound up spending a lot of shower time picking up hairs from each other as the water dislodged them, and putting them on the shower wall. This was mainly for the good of the drain (two long-haired people that shed often), but was also a neat, kind of comforting grooming ritual. Naturally we'd remove the hair from the tile wall after showering.
And several years ago, on the first houseboat trip I went on, there were spiders out on the water. Appparently they were ballooning spiders or some relative, because there were long, thin drifts of spiderweb floating free out over the water, not attached to anything, and the webs and spiders just floated by. It meant that sitting up top you got the occasional random spiderweb (and more rarely, a spider) settling on you that you had to remove, but it was also pretty neat. Sitting further back on the boat meant that the boat would catch most of them for you on the big shade on the front.
Houseboats are excellent.
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Date: 2002-05-23 07:20 am (UTC)I don't feel like such an oddball now. Thanks.
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Date: 2002-05-23 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-23 09:28 am (UTC)Short-haired people don't worry about losing hair. It falls out all the time, is hardly noticeable, and goes down the drain easily. Right. GOES DOWN THE DRAIN. I recently cleaned out my shower (including unscrewing the drain and sticking my hand down in the pipe -- fortunately the drain monster didn't get me), and found a gunkball THE SIZE OF FRANCE that was pretty much all composed of soapscum and dark, SHORT hair.
And people tell me MY hair is a nuisance to clean up. Hmph.
:)
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Date: 2002-05-23 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-23 12:36 pm (UTC)Some short haired people do. It just depends. If they're the only short haired girl sharing a bathroom with 3 long haired sorority girls, for example.
Hair gunk. Cleaning the hair gunk is especially bad if you live with someone who likes to do the snotrocket in the shower routine. Ew.
-c
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Date: 2002-05-23 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-23 01:59 pm (UTC)A friend's parents do, in fact. But I think they're both retired.
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Date: 2002-05-23 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-23 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-23 03:56 pm (UTC)I still haven't read anything by Anais Nin. I saw the movie biography of her and some well-known author. It's called something like "Henry and June". I remember a lot of movie bits, but I don't know much of its historical setting.
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Date: 2002-05-23 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-23 08:43 pm (UTC)My favorite thing by anais nin is a book of short porn stories, called _Little Birds_ I think. Damn, can that woman write some good porn. :) I highly recommend it.
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Date: 2002-06-19 01:45 pm (UTC)My ex-bf Dave would try to find something that it spelled, and noticed "Help!" and "Sheena" in there at different times. He also claimed that there is enough of it in there to grow another Sheena, and there is much more there now that he's been gone. I think it must have scared the people who came to unplug my drain away :P