no pictures, please...

there's a lot of things you shouldn't do angry. like drive, or dental work... especially if you're the one *doing* the dental work. i suppose it might not matter much if you receive the dental work angry... maybe just cause for extra suctioning to get rid of the excess froth in the mouth... but i digress...i'm going to have to say that cutting hair, especially if you're cutting your own, is something best done both sober and with a balanced state of mind... this may seem fairly obvious. in fact, i'll go so far as to say the sheer frustration and emotion associated with anger probably clouds one's judgement almost as effectively as intoxicants... things seem like a very feasible ideas when really they're probably not. grace goes out the window... movements are choppy and sloppy, done in haste with little control or planning... mostly because one doesn't have the foresight to think about the possible consequences......and this was the state of mind i found myself in a few weeks back, frustrated and irritated... for some reason that is not leaping to the tip of my tongue right now... fed up with being in iraq, and with a lot of pent up energy to burn off. now, for a little background, i've been very lazy about cutting my hair. it's pretty much been growing however it wants... and without mirrors i don't really care. until it hits the back of my neck. then it drives me crazy. i'd been doing pretty well keeping it trimmed at the nape of my neck, but it had gotten a bit long... enough that i could pull it into a slight ponytail in the back. ...so i'm getting ready to run, and i pulled my hair off of the back of my neck. and also proceeded to break my favorite pair of headphones. (which helped my irritation immensely) and my backup headphones hit me across the back of the neck... specifically, right where a smallish ponytail might be. i guess that was the final straw, if i had to pick one anyways, i guess that would be it....so the trauma shears were handy in the gym, and the ponytail was bugging me when the headphones hit against it... and it all seemed like a good idea at the moment... well, you know how the story goes....oh, what i wouldn't give for a cost cutters...