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Haircuts and The Asian Grocery Store
Nov. 9th, 2024 07:05 pmYesterday I went out shopping again. First I went to the Asian grocery store, primarily for mung bean noodles, but I also got some attractive bamboo chopsticks. Something about eating noodles with chopsticks just feels right. Forks get on my nerves in this capacity. The Asian grocery store is a magical place full of products that most Americans have never seen nor tasted before. A godzillion different types of noodles and more. I always want to take an hour and just stroll the aisles examining everything, but I feel anxious that the store owners would think that I'm stealing or something. Also it'd be awkward to do because the place is small and crowded.
They had no mung bean cake, which I found somewhat disappointing.
I had basically almost no dishes (I'd been drinking out of fruit cans, applesauce jars, and eating most meals out of the one serviceable dish I had), so I then went next door to the dollar store. I got two plates, two glasses, and two bowls. I hope that I will someday soon have someone over to use those second dishes, otherwise I will have wasted...only about four dollars, actually. No, actually I don't want to cook for anybody else. Although I guess I wouldn't so much mind making mung bean noodles since it takes only a few minutes of boiling. Actually the one pot I have is barely big enough to cook for two. Men eat a shit ton. That's an English unit, not SI.
I spent hours this evening trying to find a barber and decide what cut I want. Like shopping online for jewelry, researching hairstyles can be a pain in the ass because there is such a sharp division between styles considered to be men's vs. women's. Normally I just ignore women's because the probability that I'll find anything I'd actually like is abysmally low, but sometimes I look at them for inspiration. Short hairstyles for womyn are often modelled with large hoop earrings, which I absolutely hate the look of. Am I the only person alive who's noticed that they stretch the ear hole horribly?? It ends up looking like a slit.
Also I get exasperated with images of men's haircuts for afro-textured hair because they often have line-ups so severe that the clients' heads look a bit alien. They are also very often overly stylized with wave patterns that distract from the actual cut of the hair. The seeming obsession with wavy hair texture makes me wonder whether internalized racism/looksism is coming into play.
I think I'm going to try a Caesar cut, although I can't yet quite envision just what it would look like. I'm not sure the students at the barber school will be able to pull it off. There may not even be any female barbers, and I'm kinda just done with male barbers touching me. Maybe I will just try to cut it myself. The barbers I found on the sensory-friendly list haven't answered my emails and I'm not sure they even still work at the listed barbershops. Surveying local barbering prices, however, I doubt that I would have been able to afford them.
I found a promising (professional) female barber, but she charges forty dollars for a haircut. My monthly income is about 170 usd, so I cannot afford that. Plus my hair grows quickly, so I need two haircuts per month at a bare minimum.
I kinda wanted to be able to share such things, the search for barbers and clothes that fit properly and just the life of not being a femininity-conforming person, with a girlfriend. No, I didn't really want to share them so much as I wanted to be able to relate to someone on similar grounds. Oh well. I can relate to a guy.
I guess I've finally found some kind of solution to sleeping with cold feet: wearing a hat. Thanks to Reddit, I tried it last night. I still woke up too early, but my feet weren't freezing cold. I had a bite of the date I'd brought to bed, and I managed to fall back to sleep eventually. So things are yet improving on the insomnia front. I didn't much like sleeping with a hat on, however.
It's an insanely cold autumn. I'm going to have to buy slippers. I'm not used to my feet freezing while I'm just sitting around in the middle of the day. I'm having to go outside and sit in the sun for a good long while, like a lizard. I also need some type of heated gloves for when I'm outside. I've tried wearing two pairs of regular gloves but my hands still freeze. I guess first I should go get my blood drawn in case I just need more iron or something.
Part 2 of this gets posted tomorrow, I plan.
They had no mung bean cake, which I found somewhat disappointing.
I had basically almost no dishes (I'd been drinking out of fruit cans, applesauce jars, and eating most meals out of the one serviceable dish I had), so I then went next door to the dollar store. I got two plates, two glasses, and two bowls. I hope that I will someday soon have someone over to use those second dishes, otherwise I will have wasted...only about four dollars, actually. No, actually I don't want to cook for anybody else. Although I guess I wouldn't so much mind making mung bean noodles since it takes only a few minutes of boiling. Actually the one pot I have is barely big enough to cook for two. Men eat a shit ton. That's an English unit, not SI.
I spent hours this evening trying to find a barber and decide what cut I want. Like shopping online for jewelry, researching hairstyles can be a pain in the ass because there is such a sharp division between styles considered to be men's vs. women's. Normally I just ignore women's because the probability that I'll find anything I'd actually like is abysmally low, but sometimes I look at them for inspiration. Short hairstyles for womyn are often modelled with large hoop earrings, which I absolutely hate the look of. Am I the only person alive who's noticed that they stretch the ear hole horribly?? It ends up looking like a slit.
Also I get exasperated with images of men's haircuts for afro-textured hair because they often have line-ups so severe that the clients' heads look a bit alien. They are also very often overly stylized with wave patterns that distract from the actual cut of the hair. The seeming obsession with wavy hair texture makes me wonder whether internalized racism/looksism is coming into play.
I think I'm going to try a Caesar cut, although I can't yet quite envision just what it would look like. I'm not sure the students at the barber school will be able to pull it off. There may not even be any female barbers, and I'm kinda just done with male barbers touching me. Maybe I will just try to cut it myself. The barbers I found on the sensory-friendly list haven't answered my emails and I'm not sure they even still work at the listed barbershops. Surveying local barbering prices, however, I doubt that I would have been able to afford them.
I found a promising (professional) female barber, but she charges forty dollars for a haircut. My monthly income is about 170 usd, so I cannot afford that. Plus my hair grows quickly, so I need two haircuts per month at a bare minimum.
I kinda wanted to be able to share such things, the search for barbers and clothes that fit properly and just the life of not being a femininity-conforming person, with a girlfriend. No, I didn't really want to share them so much as I wanted to be able to relate to someone on similar grounds. Oh well. I can relate to a guy.
I guess I've finally found some kind of solution to sleeping with cold feet: wearing a hat. Thanks to Reddit, I tried it last night. I still woke up too early, but my feet weren't freezing cold. I had a bite of the date I'd brought to bed, and I managed to fall back to sleep eventually. So things are yet improving on the insomnia front. I didn't much like sleeping with a hat on, however.
It's an insanely cold autumn. I'm going to have to buy slippers. I'm not used to my feet freezing while I'm just sitting around in the middle of the day. I'm having to go outside and sit in the sun for a good long while, like a lizard. I also need some type of heated gloves for when I'm outside. I've tried wearing two pairs of regular gloves but my hands still freeze. I guess first I should go get my blood drawn in case I just need more iron or something.
Part 2 of this gets posted tomorrow, I plan.
