The No News is No News Purgatory Thread, Volume 8

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Tasmin21

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Just got an email from interview lady. She says she's still waiting to hear back from senior management, and that she's asking for a status today, and that she's sorry it's taking so long.
 

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:Thumbs: on the title!

*Cuisinarts another Cullen* for the job.


On the hair: I will dye and wear my long, curly Ren-Faire hair on my wrinkled old self to my grave. Screw 'em. :D
 

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Tas- I like that. It has a nice sense of foreboding to it.
 

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I'm another hair non-conformist. That 'rule' about how long it's appropriate to wear one's hair depending on one's age, by decade? Screw it. Besides, I look like a pinhead with short hair.

Maryn, plenty of hair, with plenty of white in it
 

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Tas, I like it.


I'm just now getting to where I can afford to have some of the things I enjoy, and time can't ruin that for me.

The only thing that really freaks me out is that I thought I'd be much farther into actually having some sort of career by now. But that has nothing to do with my age, just luck and choices.

This, on both counts.

I definitely don't think of myself as being 33-- though sometimes I think that's mostly because I cannot wrap my head around the notion that my little brother is 30, and my youngest sister is 28. (This, despite the fact that they both have kids that can hold a conversation.)


I have made more tea in the last hour than I have in the last month, I think. I don't think it's helping, particularly, but at least it gives people something to do. Everyone here is vacillating between frozen shock and trying to act like everything's okay. We've done this far too many times in the last few years, so I know we'll hit a happy medium somewhere around 3 pm.

*sigh*
 

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I like the title, Tas.

On the hair: I will dye and wear my long, curly Ren-Faire hair on my wrinkled old self to my grave. Screw 'em. :D

I'm another hair non-conformist. That 'rule' about how long it's appropriate to wear one's hair depending on one's age, by decade? Screw it. Besides, I look like a pinhead with short hair.

Maryn, plenty of hair, with plenty of white in it

I'm keeping my hair long too, but I am actually thinking about having it colored at a salon, because they'd do a better job than I can do on my own.
 

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This week is my short shift, thankfully. My immediate boss has decided to jump on the retaliatory band wagon and keeps confronting me every time I walk away from my desk giving me the twenty questions about why I'm leaving my desk.

I am keeping alert, though. If she keeps doing it off to HR I go, because I've had enough of this bull poo.

Cuddled in a duvet now because all of this stress has caused my stomach to act up. Currently feels like someone's trying to gut me :(

As soon as I can manage it I'm moving on to my WIP.
 

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(((sunna)))

(((Kia))) That's so unfair. I'm sorry the stress is getting to
you.

I'm another hair non-conformist. That 'rule' about how long it's appropriate to wear one's hair depending on one's age, by decade? Screw it. Besides, I look like a pinhead with short hair.

Maryn, plenty of hair, with plenty of white in it

The hair length by age rule is silly. My dream is to be like my great-aunt. She had this amazing, pure white hair that was very, very long. It was beautiful.

I told myself after college and every color of the rainbow that I wouldn't dye my hair again. I'll probably be entirely white in the next ten years, so I might revise that opinion.
 

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I hope I go white in a really dramatic fashion. I always kinda wanted gray/white hair like the aunt out of Twister, I think her hair is just gorgeous.
 

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Lois Smith looked great in that role, so earthy and real. I remember talking about her hair with a friend around my own age.

In a quest not to be too lazy even though I have a sinus headache, I got dressed--ten minutes before the doorbell rang. It was the meter reader.

Maryn, lucky
 

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Good morning folks. Super-busy day for me ahead. My high on Saturday was (of course) followed by the requisite down on Sunday. But I still like my WIP :)

((Kiahanna))

((Sunna))

((Kellion))

Tas, good luck re interview - and I like the title.

Lily, so glad you are back and congrats on the laptop!

Count me in with the long-hair-to-the-grave thing. Mine is still brown, but the past few years I've been getting the occasional long white hair in there...makes me hopeful that I'll go gray/white in the way I always wanted to :)

My 20s were great, because I started doing what I wanted to do and not what other people wanted me to do/told me I should do. Really, I've been pretty happy since I graduated from college and went out on my own. There was one bad period in my early 30s - a direct result of listening to "shoulds" rather than to my own self.
 

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I've repped a few of you this, but the whole notion that older women should have shorter hair is a totally new thing, when you look at the history of the world. And I will ignore it as long as I have hair. :D Long hair forever!

I will have bright white hair like my grandmother. Which is fine with me; I just wish the strands would hold off another few years.
 
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My old hairs are all white, so I'll eventually be an all-white-haired old lady. They show in my nearly-black hair, but I'm trying to embrace them.

My mother and I were at the salon once. An Asian lady with a sparkling silver-white bob was having her styling finished and it was gorgeous. Her face was still flawless, so she was incredibly striking and elegant. Looked like her hair was still the silky Asian texture, too. Just gorgeous. It was the first time I'd seen an older person's hair be all one color of white before. Others were either dyeing it like my grandmother because it was 'dishwater gray' or salt-and-pepper like my grandfather. I've always hoped my old lady hair would end up looking like that woman's.
 

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This discussion of hair and age reminds me why I'm so happy I stumbled into Purgatory one day. Y'all rock.

I have Rogue hair. It was a pretty steady normal hair color to pure white streak ratio until grad school. Now my white is migrating backward on my head. It's becoming less of a defined streak and more of just going white. Oh, well!

I also wanted to thank everyone who gave me suggests about how to self-edit or sent me reading suggestions. I really appreciate it. I have a phenomenal day yesterday. I wrote 5k of my Shiny New Idea and figured out the glaring problem with my WIP after doing a chapter-by-chapter outline. So now I have a plan for revisions, the rough draft of a query to match, and good progress on the next project.
 

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((((Sunna))))

Tas, I like the title. too.

Hair - I had to wear mine long on stage for years. When I got sick in my 40s it just became too much to keep up. I go from several short styles, but the A-line 20s bob I have now is what most people seem to like on me. It's super short in the back because I hate things on my neck. Even when I had it long, it was up more often than not, when not onstage. I cannot imagine growing it out again and having to deal with it more than I do now. Put me in the group who prefers simple and out of my way. Wash, squish the curls and go.
 

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Tas, love the title and fingers crossed for you.

Hair, I can't afford to get mine cut, so it's the longest it's been...ever. I love it, apart from the post-shower comb-out ritual. I seem to have inherited my Irish grandmother's genes, because I'm 53 and hardly have a grey hair. And, thinking about it, my grandmother wore her hair long (albeit taken up) until her dying day. So, yeah, I'm keeping mine. I just keep it twisted up out of the way while I'm working, and put it in a ponytail at bed time.

I'm 33 in my head. I wish someone would tell my body.

Kiahanna, I think you might feel better if you started looking for another job.

(((((Sunna))))) What shocking news. :(

In other news, I'd like Para's brain. I've edited a 3rd of what she has this month. *is slow*

Wrote 3k on the WIP yesterday and am about to write some more.
 

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I definitely don't feel my age and I hate when they tell you what you can't wear anymore. Although I must say, I cringe when I see anyone over 30 wearing barrettes or bows in their hair. I don't mean to offend if someone here does. It just gives me the heebie jeebies. My best friend does it. *cringe*

The other day, I saw someone dressed almost exactly like this:

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The whole Asian babydoll slut thing - I'm walking up on her from behind and I'm like, whoa, she's brave, but that's cute and she has the body for it. Then she turns around and she's like 50. I was like AAAAAAAUGH!!! NOOOOO!

Morning, purgs. Came in this morning to the news that a coworker, someone I've known for years, died this weekend. She was in her early 50s and healthy.

Oh no! So sorry to hear this. Hugs to you and everyone at your work.

Just got an email from interview lady. She says she's still waiting to hear back from senior management, and that she's asking for a status today, and that she's sorry it's taking so long.

That means she wants you and she's waiting for the okay from up above! :D

I'm another hair non-conformist. That 'rule' about how long it's appropriate to wear one's hair depending on one's age, by decade? Screw it. Besides, I look like a pinhead with short hair.

Oh heck no. I specifically stopped whacking my hair off because I decided it's time to work on my "distinguished older woman" long hair look. Haha. This is probably early programming though - when I was in junior high I had a teacher I admired who had formerly worn this cute little bob cut. Over the course of two years she grew it long and then started putting it back in buns. Someone asked her about the switch and she informed them, very prim and proper, that short hair was for young women and she was now passed that age. ;)
 

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mornin' puglets!

lily pie, i hear you on the
pain thing. definitely didn't have
in my late 20s. but after two pregnancies
and my gumby issues--no fun.
it also affects my gums so i have
to go in for cleanings 4x a year opposed
to two. surgery has been mentioned if
i can't maintain. i was referred to a specialist
and i swear i'm the youngest person
there--everyone else is like 70. OY!

as for wardrobe and hairstyle, i think if
it looks good on you, do it. i mean, i love
betsey johnson and we know she is loopy
and ageless when it comes to style.

i've realized i've traveled in the car
over 500 miles between previous weekend and
this past one. that's a lot of trekking for me.
this week is a busy one, and i'll be off
to mexico retreat in less than two! crazy.

finished Unsp0ken by rees br3nnan and
really loved it. different than her Demon's
trilogy, which i really enjoyed as well.
such a talented writer for not yet 30.
 

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My old hairs are all white, so I'll eventually be an all-white-haired old lady. They show in my nearly-black hair, but I'm trying to embrace them.

kudos to you. i'm 40 this year
and i simply can't embrace my gray,
which is not silky asian but kinky pube like
most of them. probably due to my wiry naturally
curly hair.

just no.

it makes me look and feel a lot older
than how i look and act, i think.

it is probably my Major Vanity at this
point in life.
 

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finished Unsp0ken by rees br3nnan and
really loved it. different than her Demon's
trilogy, which i really enjoyed as well.
such a talented writer for not yet 30.

I'm reading this right now. Love the voice in it, though usually I don't like reading YA when the characters have a voice that's too sophisticated. In this case though, it's so funny, I can overlook.

The more I read of C1nda W1illiams Ch1ma, the more I despair of ever matching that writing ability. I guess I put her as my goal of what I would like to acheive in terms of writing and storytelling.
 

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In other news, I'd like Para's brain. I've edited a 3rd of what she has this month. *is slow*

If only you had no family, no housework, no social life and no writing career, you too could spend every waking hour at work! :tongue
 

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amarie, i supposed it is sophisticated but
i didn't find it false. it fit, if you know what
i mean? and kami is more similar to srb in
real life as far as wit and being funny.

as for cinda, you know i am a HUGE fan.
but i think it's a matter of accepting your
own style in storytelling and prose? i admire
many writers--many of whom are my friends--
but i know what i write is unique and it's
impossible to be like each other.

it's the reason we can tell similar stories and
themes over and over again, and it feels fresh.
because of our own unique styles and voices.
 
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