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.
Waaa!!!
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.
No Music
Chris and I were going to drop by Montreal for a concert this Friday, but because of the amount of homework I want to get done, I’ve decided against it. Sorry to all who were looking forward to this. We’ll do it some other time.
Birthdays
It was Chris’ b-day this week and we’ve had lots of fun celebrating it. We went for a nice supper to Les Fougeres and I bought him a few hardcover books he wanted. It was nice. Some of my co-workers had b-days this month too and they were all complaining about it and how it sucks being old. Birthdays have nothing to do with being old. You get old whether you like it or not. Unless you die of course, and I don’t think any of my co-workers carry a silent death wish. In any case, I say stop whining and have fun. Least you’re not 16 with bags full of angst and nothing to show for it but pimples.
Sitting in the waiting room *
A little bit of frivolous fun. Chris got Punk, Jock, Loner, Stoner, Goth in that order.
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* Fugazi, though my favourite version is by Emm Gryner
Reading week or two
Now that school hasn’t really started yet and I’ve had a chance to catch some sleep, I’ve been reading literature. It’s nice. I’ve managed to read two books in last 6 months. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy was next to my bed since late summer. I would read it when I was not dead tired, but tired enough not to be able to do any homework.
I liked the book, it has a very real book and if you take Ottawa Citizen seriously you would think that it was written in 2078. It examines the small town attitudes in the Victorian times and their brutal effects on people caught on the wrong side of banal.
Another book that I’ve read entirely over the holidays is The Life of Pi by Yan Martel. I liked this one too, it is an enjoyable and exciting read with an interesting message.