1. - My Hair

I had never heard of the "Curly Girl Method" until today. Well, it was more like 5 minutes ago when I was surfing the internet instead of baking cupcakes for Sabbath tomorrow. Nevertheless, I came across the following blog that changed my life forever...I think:

http://naturalhairrules.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-follow-curly-girl-method-for.html

The blog basically lists the rules and steps that should be taken into achieving the healthiest hair possible for kinky-curly haired girls like me. And after explaining it all to my mom over one of our four or five phone call appointments each day, she also hopped on to the band wagon too.

POWER TO ALL THE BROWN GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE STRAIGHT HAIR TO BE BEAUTIFUL.

Sorry...I kind of got carried away with the all-CAPS mode...never again.

So, I figured I'd blog about my "no-poo" (or no shampoo for all the non-believers) adventure. It's only conditioners from here on out, homies! Baby's got a new 'tude on life and it does NOT involve changing my natural, God-given curls.


In honor of the beloved "before and after" images that society holds so dear, the following picture is the most recent one I've taken (about two weeks ago) without flat-ironing my hair:

And just for kicks, the next picture is how I look, right now, before I use a nasty/harsh shampoo on my hair for the last time. NOTE - I combed out the curls for a more ethnic/dramatic effect:

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On the homepage for the School of Liberal Arts

Thoughts that shuffle through my mind while voting for Anoop Desai at three o'clock in the morning (because I have a Hawaii number even though I currently live in Indiana):

• Is there a rule somewhere that states that the first blog entry must be prolific?
• If I were Native American, I'd like to be Hopi Indian...or part of an awesome warrior nation.
• I am a Water Bender.
• DAMN YOU person who already has spiritvoices as your blog address!
• I need to graduate by December and start paying back my student loans.
• Do Obama's tuition plans directly effect me? How so?
• Did I use "effect" correctly or is it "affect?"
• Does the question mark go inside the quotation mark or outside? ("affect?" or "affect"?)
• When I prove that Nessie exists, I'm going to celebrate by eating palak paneer and rice.
• Aaaaah I'm SO hungry right now!
• I believe that everyone has a little bit of racism in them...except Jesus...He's cool like that.
• I use the phrase "anally raped" too freely in my day-to-day conversations.
• When Smokey Robinson suggests you sing a song a certain way (Danny Gokey), you take his suggestion as an order saying, "Sir, yes, sir!" What the hiznay were you thinking, Danny?! No votes for you this week!
• *Totally just fell off to sleep for a good 20 minutes*
• I haven't written a poem in a fortnight. Although, I have a bunch that are unfinished.
• Cookies are really small, flat cakes and brownies are actually just big, thick cookies!
• Random sparks of genius-ness such as the sentence above just blow mah miiiiiind.
• I will never smoke a cigarette.
• If I was dying, I'd consider the mary jane.
• If I was dying, I'd also consider eating meat and shooting whiskey.
• I hate really skinny vegetarians...making me feel all bad for being chubby...EAT A BURGER, WENCH.
• You know what else I hate? English majors saying - in every conversation - "pardon the pun! hardy-har-har!" I'll show you a pun...I'll PUNch you in the face!
• Really, I'm a sweetheart...really, I promise :)
• Five in the morning! Done voting for Noopy (with a few votes for Adam). Yalimaiwai OUT!