Toby and I went out to lunch today, and afterward, as we headed over to the cashier to pay, we walked by this elderly couple, the woman pushing the man in his wheelchair. As we passed, the woman looked at me and gave me the sourest look ever. I just gave her the sunniest smile I could and went on my way.

It wasn't until I got back to work that I realized she must been offended by my hair.





I got my hair done did yesterday. It looks darker in real life--the phone overexposes it a tad, and I can't adjust it well enough in Photoshop to approximate it, so you'll just have to imagine what it looks like in real life. The hair-colored parts are a dark chocolate brown near my scalp and black near the ends.

It's a kind of trendy look right now, if you go by Pinterest. Just search for "oil slick hair" there and you'll see a billion variants. However, I have yet to see someone in real life with this sort of hair (I do work at a slightly more conservative than the norm university), and years back I asked my stylist to color my hair like a blackbird's wing, and he did something similar, so I will just claim to have been ahead of the curve and therefore am now going retro.

Ironically, of course.