Haircut!

Ok, here are pics of my hair before, during and after my mostly self-inflicted haircut.

This is my sad, somber, pre-cut face.













I did it myself for the most part, and I probably should have left it at about this length.






























This is around the mullet phase.









A SWEEEET little tail!









All my hair in the sink...



















It's basically a long buzzcut, but I'm proud of it.
Pretty short, but oh well, it will grow back.

Smell Bad!

Right now in my class there's some kind of a burning, chemically smell. Kind of like birthday candles...and Nair(don't ask me how I remember how that smells, I can't remember). I'm getting light-headed right now, but my professor doesn't care. UH is seriously a crappy school. This is like something from a Roald Dahl book(I'm thinking Matilda, but I don't really remember any foul-smelling incidents in there to be honest). Maybe I can convince my professor to let class out early...

Shower

This past week I've been house-sitting for my boss who lives up on the mountain. She gets the water in her house directly from a rain catchment tank. It is gross to drink and gross to shower in. So I haven't been showering there. After class I go to my apartment, shower, and then head back up the hill(well, most days. Sometimes I just don't shower at all. Which makes for some very Kurt Cobainesque greasy locks).It reminds me of the time last year when I was in Korea and I didn't shower at my house for a month because I had bought a membership to a gym/public bathhouse, so I always bathed there. I say it reminds me of that, only the cleaning of myself isn't nearly as fun or relaxing here. Anyway, the dog at the house is cute; her name is Ellie. On an unrelated note, Asians are so funny! Check out this genius Japanese invention. Put those kids to work early dusting your floors- milk ain't free you know! I promise more on awesome/hilarious Asians in a later post.







Cute Baby










Cute Ellie

Excellent!!

Ok, I just got a totally triumphant shirt the other day from my girlfriend Marcie. Check it out-
















I know, the pics are kinda dark and the quality isn't so hot, but I haven't been able to use my camera since a mishap at the beach where I got sand all up in there. Y'all get the gist of it though, I scored an awesome shirt. Party on dudes!

Mustache

The other day I was shaving, and I decided to just leave the bit right above my lip. I got such a good response from all my girl friends that I decided to keep growing it out. So here it is, a full 2 weeks of mustache stubble(give or take a day).
















I know, it's pathetic, but given the circumstances I felt like I had to at least give it a go.









Alright, now that it's been recorded, I'm off to the bathroom to shave.

Three down, Three to go

Yea! Finals are almost over! Today I had a test for a class I didn't really prepare for, so I got up early and studied at the library for a few hours right before. Guess what? I studied all the right stuff, and I definitely aced it. Like i would be disappointed if I end up with under 94-95 percent. Nice! Now I only have three more finals, and I'm out to Utah for a few weeks. That will be nice, because I won't have to clean up after my stinky roommate for a while. And it will be nice to be in a place where we don't have 80 percent humidity making me feel like some kind of fatso sweating dripping all down my back when I go do something outdoorsy. I can't ever remember having a sweaty back in Utah, but here I get one just walking to school.

Extremely Intelligent Conversation

Well, it’s been a crazy last week of school doing papers and getting ready for finals, but I just thought I had to get on here and write something. And I had a discussion at fhe on Monday about all the ways we have in English to say “throw up” (as a verb). This was what we could think of:

Hurl
Spew
Throw up
Vomit
Retch
Puke
Barf
Toss your cookies
Lose your lunch
Ralf( or Ralph,there was some dissent on the spelling)
Pray to the porcelain god
Be sick
Yak(Yack?)
Upchuck/chuckup
Blow chunks
Heave
Blecking up
Blowing biscuits

I had heard all but “blecking up” and “blowing biscuits” before. After this discussion I went home and looked online, let me tell you there are tons more. My personal favorite is “yelling at the bushes”, the imagery is just incredible. But most that I found just weren’t that great. Lemme know if you can think of some more good expressions. I wonder why we have so many? Korean only has one or two. I guess that's why English is great. Also, I think "yak" is an animal,and so "yack" is probably the right way to spell it in this context...but I was the only one who thought that way.