Glad to hear you are hanging in there. I love reading too and am almost finished reading My Sisters Keeper. I want to see a picture of your new hair. I had red hair for a little while a few years ago, but I don't think I looked that great since my natural hair color is brown.

It all sounds great, sweetie! I rather like books too, as well as red hair. I even used to have some, but at least the books are still here!

I've always liked your taste, but it doesn't even matter because you would still look good to me if you shaved your head and put a McDonalds advert on it. Keep in mind that stylists will generally tell you that the shortest hair looks cute, sexy and youthful (or grown up!) because the shorter it is, the sooner it loses the shape and you have to come come back. Very long hair can grow for a year and not look much different, so the ideal for them would be a shaved head, which would generate a daily income, as long as you didn't shave it at home! (My friend used to manage a fancy salon. )

Love you, doll!

Boredom is just depression; believe it or not, you can decide that everything will be fine and you will solve your problems eventually and feel happy, and by telling yourself that over and over a few million times, you do feel better. You have to know it's true for it to work, but it is true! I swear!

I'm feeling a bit fuzzy in the head after a marathon paper sorting session over a few days. It's now clear I've only scratched the surface. (boo!) I think I can grow up and organize this stuff now, thanks to your inspiring example of so much hard work in the face of adversity. My dad's always been great at this stuff but I guess I was looking for a prettier inspiration. And his hair isn't red, so you really can't blame me for ignoring him.

How is the spirulina? How does it make you feel? I have some but I never take it, probably because it's never made me feel any better. Perhaps I'll start trying to take it regularly.

Read hair rocks!

I am also trying the secret. Fingers crossed!

cant wait to see the new hair.

and, books are the best friends.

double and, that quote owns.

Red hair is aces as far as I'm concerned.

Hello my love,
I think the most effective response to even the pushiest people who are telling you what you could be doing better is something like "Thank you for bringing that to my attention." They will be satisfied to learn that their message has been received and you don't find yourself insulting someone who may have been insensitive but could still have been sincerely interested in helping you, as I suspect most of them probably are. In any case, it will stop them, whereas an argument will be something they want to win, so you don't want to get adversarial. Of course you could easily win arguments but there's no prize and it's boring, pointless shit. (That's a sociological term, of course.) BTW, they're right; eat someone, or something. Start with the rudest one!

The Secretion's not bad if you take the superstition and pseudo-science lightly. I'm sure that all your successes involved having no doubt that you could achieve them, and that certainty is almost mandatory in everything we want to do well. First you recognize that you can succeed, then you program yourself to never forget it for a second. That way you really put your best effort into the task, but I can't believe you haven't been doing this already. Just extend it to other areas of your life. Besides, I would never set you up for failure by telling you that you can do great things if it were not true. I'm not that nasty!

It sounds like fading away may be a common expression down there. I guess her fear for such a lovely young lady being in any danger overcame her etiquette training. Conversations with strangers are much less important than your inner dialog. Everyone has stresses even though they hide them as well as they can, and they somehow get by. There's no chance that you can't do the same thing with all of your intelligence and determination. When I feel tired, I don't work, but you're showing me a better way and I love you for it, and a million other things besides.

Whether you agree with them or eat them, it's going to shut them up at the very least, but far be it for me to deny you the pleasure of inflicting a sound thrashing on the offenders if it suits your mood. God, I'm so damn supportive! Give 'em a kick for me, dear.

When I don't work per se, I'm constantly thinking about important things, so rattionalizing is fairly easy!

I could see working at a womens gym as interesting.. but prob not for any good reasons . Although I bet even that would get boring after a few days.. thanks for the feedback though

Kind of like The Devil made me do it, or maybe, I hear voices in my head, Your Honour, I always thought it was God telling me what to do. They don't tend to like that; I think it makes them jealous!

Psychiatric assessment: "Hey I don't know if it was God or the devil instructing me, but you're crazy if you think I'm going to mess with either of those dudes!" I suppose they might throw away the key on you, but does have internal logic.

I'm so sorry you don't feel well, dear. I hope it doesn't last long. Take care of yourself.
Love you!

That sounds so great, sweetie. I do have to confess that I feel terrible, because had I sent you an elephant when I promised to months ago, you might be used to them by now. I'll point out they're mostly interested in other elephants, and only do the circus thing for the peanuts, or whatever it is they eat, so they can be pretty much counted upon to leave you alone. I've heard that clowns can have rabies, so move fast if one comes your way showing any teeth.

Have a wonderful time in spite of this message, dear. I'll be thinking of you there.