Today, apart from getting my hair cut. We watched The Princess Bride and Minority Report. I thoroughly enjoyed them both. The Princess Bride is the only movie that I’ve liked that guy in – you know the Robin Hood: Men in Tights guy?
While I was at the salon I got my hair washed, that usually happens before they cut it. This time was extra special – I had the massage vibrations on the chair turned on, and I think that the guy (yep, more and more young men are going into the hair industry) really wanted me to have a good hair washing experience, he reall massaged my head and even the top of my neck. It was totally awesome. I ha to do a bit of waiting because they were busy and I think they were expecting me to get a colour in which case they would have put it in and left me, I still had to do the waiting, even without the colour. In tht time and during the cut I read three articles in Marie Claire. I’m usually against magazines, but these articles were really interesting. One was about health care for mentally ill people and how the system is inadequate, it told the story of a particular case in which a schitzophrenic man killed his girlfriend two days after going to hospital and telling them he might hurt someone, they just sedated him and sent him home. Another story was about a bodybuilding couple that murdered their assistant – to this day only they know why. The other story, while the idea might sound trashy it was quite tasteful and interesting; a woman decided to dress up/become a man for a while. She got her hair cut, figured out how to put on some fake stubble, did a bit of upper body working out, had a voice trainer coach her to speak like a man (less words, speak more slowly, use breathing to sound deeper), wore a prosthetic penis and mens’ clothes. She joined a boiling team and found a job and dated a bit. She did that for 18 months and discovered alot; men have problems too, body image, anger, all kinds of things. She noticed, and didn’t like, the power that women have in the dating arena, it’s completely their perogative to say yes, or no or to like you or dismiss you. Everyone believed she was a man but the ones she told about being a woman seemed to take it well and weren’t that surprised, the bowling team guys liked her better as a woman and one person she went on a date with said that ‘he’ was cute and likeable but that he didn’t look strong which was something she found sexy. I also remembered that I read an interesting article about Juarez, Mexico in a Marie Claire a long time ago – apparently there is more than ‘how to improve your looks’ and ‘ten ways to more orgasms’ in some of these magazines.
I meant to do some of my genetics assignment. However, it didn’t work because I need to log onto a computer remotely and it wouldn’t accept our connections, from my PC or hubby’s mac. There’s some stuff I can write up on another part of the assignment but if I can’t get onto the other computer then I might have a problem. I emailed the lecturer, so at least he’ll know that I was trying to do it.
Tomorrow our internet will speed up again. Thank goodness! For the last week loading pages has been painful. I’ve had to stop pages and start them again because they took so long. It’s like they took so long to load they forgot what they were doing!
I hope I get that assignment stuff done nice and early tomorrow. I’d like to catch up on my blog reading!
The guy from Robin Hood: Men in Tights is Cary Elwes…=)