a windblown left side

fashion disaster destroys homes, kills twelve

Help! My hair is shaggy and my clothes are out of style! This sounds like a Makeover Story in the making - I can't believe I even know that show exists. That's what I get for dating a TV junkie.

But it's true - I need a haircut and I am going shopping for clothes soon. Hair styles have always been a hassle (many readers will [painfully] remember me rocking the chilibowl well into my junior year of high school). Clothes used to be simpler: when I was younger, I would keep growing out of clothes, and so each year I would get some new ones, which would keep me up to date, stylishly speaking (actually, usually one or two steps behind, because I shop at cheap stores who are always behind the expensive toocool ones).

But now I don't really grow, so I usually wait until my clothes wear out to get new ones. This effectively makes me a walking fashion time capsule - it's still 1999 according my shorts.

I'm stuck in a bad position on this issue. I hate buying clothes and getting my hair cut and worrying about the way I look, but I'm also not confident enough to really not care at all about how I look. I do care. I'd like to look cool all the time, I just don't have the time, money, or energy. If I could get away with it, I'd live the life of a cartoon character. I'd have hair that never grew and I'd wear the same clothes day in and day out. My hair would stay medium length, long enough to spike but not so long it becomes ridiculous to spike. I'd wear a white t-shirt and jeans. And for the love of all that's holy, I wouldn't have to shave. Or clip my nails. Oh, what I would give to be no-maintenance.

Randomly/nerdily, I successfully updated my FreeBSD system from 4.7 to 4.8 by downloading the source and recompiling all the binaries and then the kernel. It was surprisingly easy thanks to the amazing documention those FreeBSD people provide. FreeBSD makes me happy like an OS shouldn't be able to.

Posted by Ben at August 6, 2003 10:46 PM