One in five pregnancies end in miscarriages and unfortunately I got to experience this first hand. Chris and I were quite upset but we’re slowly coming to terms with this. A number of my friends have had bad pregnancies only to go on and have beautiful healthy kids later on.

It will take a few months to recover, but we shall try again when the time is right. Even though this whole thing didn’t end right, I really appreciated all the congratulations and well-wishing notes we got from all of you. It is great to know that our friends are excited for us and that some even think we’ll be cool parents. I quite hope that we will indeed. When we get around to it, if nothing else, this weekend’s events will make it so much more precious.

I glanced over the article on slashdot talking about a the campaign to uncancel Star Trek: Enterprise. My initial response was a ‘eh whatever’. It is an enjoyable show and all, but if that’s the best cause you have to rally and donate money to than that is sad. It reminds me of the “Save the 300 m stretch of beach from the baby seal invasion” protest we witnessed while in San Diego last summer. The article referenced above has an interesting twist though. The major donation was received from commercial space flight industry with explanation that the show provides role models for future scientist and engineers. This is something I feel more sympathy for.

What I don’t understand about Enterprise cancellation is the following; the last season was awful. The script stunk, characters were undeveloped, concepts boring and the only thing remotely interesting was how much beer one would have to drink per show given that one took a sip for every suggestive camera angle and two sips per each shower scene. Yet the show did not get cancelled then. This season they actually got their act together, every episode was watchable and not a single shower scene occurred. But it got cancelled. I guess that just goes to show the stupidity of the common man. In any case I don’t think they’ll get the money to uncancel the show. At least it is in good company with all the other cancelled shows I enjoyed such as Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, and I bet you in a few months Numb3rs and the House. At least it will stop me from watching too much TV.

Apparently the 7th floor of the Hall building (main Concordia building downtown) is being completely renovated. This means that they are demolishing the IEEE student office and moving it to some other place. I am taking a few minutes to reflect on the good and the bad times past.

According to Chris (this is as far as I am taking my research) Hong Kong has population of the size of Quebec on an area that is twice the size of Montreal Island.

I will have to go to Montreal to get a hair cut as soon as I can get a free day. I decided that it is slowly time to wean myself from Coupe Bizarre by visiting Ottawa hair places until I find something I like.

I figured that being open-minded is the best way of finding another good hair shop. How wrong I was. I believe that the Ottawa hair industry is monopolized by Vidal Sassoon or whatever. When I go to a hairdresser I generally just have 3 requirements that I think any hairdresser worth his salt can run with. In fact many hairdressers I have visited in the past do (they all work for Coupe Bizzarre). These three requirements are:

Requirement 1: Has to be wash and wear – I don’t use hair products partially because ambidexterity required does not become me, partially because I don’t want to fund the industry thereby perpetuating the beauty myth and mostly because any dirt or grease landing on my face will cause boil sized pimples I’d rather live without.

Requirement 2: Has to be fun – otherwise I can just put a pot on my head and cut out whatever is visible. Or take a picture of a mediocre haircut and take it to First Choice Hair Cutters (for the non Ottawans, that’s the place where they put a pot on your head, cut the visible parts and charge you 10$ for it).

Requirement 3: The hair should be out of my face as much as possible. I am not too strict on this one. However, if I have to move the hair out of my face a lot, I get my face all greasy with my fingers and end up with the above mentioned zits. Plus it is really annoying while cooking or gardening or doing any activity where I need to see and my hands are too sticky or filthy to touch my hair.

Not too hard. I am generally really vague on length and absolutely silent on the style, which, I believe, leaves the hair dresser free to do any hair style they can think of (or know how to do).

At the hair place I went to this month, the hair dresser (and he seems to have been cutting hair for at least 20 years) told me that it is impossible to do a hair style where hair does not get into your eyes and cut my hair in a way that I have to put in half a can of hair spray to look like anything. Right now my haircut is so not fun it is sad. I have had a few bad hair cuts over they years, but noting that made me get another hair cut just to fix this one. I could post a picture but I don’t want any evidence of this atrocity lingering around.

I am now convinced that Ottawa is a monopoly of hair products. Anytime I go anywhere they keep giving me hairstyles that look crap without gunk. I figured that they either don’t know how to cut hair or they are forbidden to cut hair in a wash and wear style by the corporate interests. I hope these corporations never take over Coupe Bizzarre or I will have to buy a very shapely pot.