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You 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.

Date: 2002-05-23 07:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mg4h.livejournal.com
I'm not the only long-haired person who does that, I see. I try to pull out all the loose hairs before I go in the shower, but there will always be some that fall out later, and I do stick them on the wall of the shower just like that. Odd.

I don't feel like such an oddball now. Thanks.

Date: 2002-05-23 08:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lusty.livejournal.com
How strange. I never did that myself when I had long hair (I always dropped the clumps of hair into the trash can sitting just outside the shower curtain), but I picked up the habit when I was dating B because it was something he did too.

Date: 2002-05-23 09:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] blk
The vast majority of my loose hairs come out when I brush my hair, which I do before and after showering, so I don't lose much in the shower. I still do the wall-trick similarly, though, and what I don't catch while I'm standing I just pick up from the coil around the drain when I'm done.

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.

:)

Date: 2002-05-23 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelbob.livejournal.com
I think that short-haired people don't do this so much because it's harder to catch the hair before it escapes down the drain :-)

Date: 2002-05-23 12:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thwomp.livejournal.com
I stick my (somewhat short) hair on the wall. I try to clean it up afterwards, though.

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

Date: 2002-05-23 01:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] safya.livejournal.com
houseboats are way excellent. maybe you should live in one--compared to other housing options in your area, they seem surprisingly affordable, especially the vaguely ilegal to live in nonfunctional ones :)

Date: 2002-05-23 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelbob.livejournal.com
Living in one would be more of a problem since I'd have to commute to work. If it weren't for the whole work thing it'd work great...

A friend's parents do, in fact. But I think they're both retired.

Date: 2002-05-23 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lusty.livejournal.com
There are people who live on boats in Redwood City. That's not so much more than you're already commuting.

Date: 2002-05-23 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stephtoth.livejournal.com
there's a great book with a houseboat in it by anais nin. I can't remember the title off hand though... but it was really good, in that anais nin sort of way

Date: 2002-05-23 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelbob.livejournal.com
That's a great idea with the employment application...

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.

Date: 2002-05-23 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] safya.livejournal.com
i saw that. i think her books are a lot like her life in that everyone is constantly having sex with everyone else for very little good reason. i read "a spy in the house of love" and the whole time i was thinking that it was dumb, that her characters were obviously making themselves miserable, that the plot was boringly repetitive, and then at the end there's this brief explanation of why they do it that totally blew me away in terms of how much i got it. thus, i have great artistic respect for her for being able to express something like that.

Date: 2002-05-23 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stephtoth.livejournal.com
I think spy in the house of love is one of the best all time novel titles. I still havn't read that one yet. (unless it has a houseboat in it and I'm just confused...)
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.

Date: 2002-06-19 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sheenaqotj.livejournal.com
I thought sticking hair on the wall was pretty efficient when I first started doing it, on my own. But... I usually left it up there, which could be considered pretty disgusting.

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
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