My guidance counselor suggested I take a trip after my exams, so that I don't wake up the next day and think "yesterday I was a student, and today I'm-"

"Unemployed?"

"Uh...no."

After taking my university graduation photos on Thursday and completely duplicating my bland side-parted high school graduation pictures of yore, I started to reflect on the fact that for the two months leading up to January 13 I rocked the faux-hawk. The faux-hawk! At first friends and acquaintances alike exclaimed, "Awesome! How do you do it?!" and I would give them quasi-instructions that were sure to fail (because if we all walked around wearing faux-hawks we'd just look stupid). Later some speculated that I slept with my hair that way to avoid having to do it everyday, while others hypothesized that it wasn't even my real hair. That was fun for awhile, but then people at work started to make their hedgy comments, like, "Hey, you um, really like that style, don't you?" To which I replied, "Please -- hate the game, not the player". Except I didn't actually say that, because while I have no problem faux-hawking, letting my earrings dangle to my shoulders, and tucking my jeans into my boots, I have yet to find the courage to make nonsensical comments in public.

I caught the latter end of what I presumed was your appraisal of my person, where your eyes fell to my boots and your brow lifted in a way one can only describe as 'piqued interest'. Thank you, as you have forever validated my morning routine of spending an hour getting dressed just as I was prepared to give up vanity forever and resign myself to turtleneck sweaters and ponytails.

I suppose almost every lazy blogger makes the resolution to write more in the new year, the same way we see sharp rises in gym memberships and Jenny Craig commercials the first few weeks of January that eventually taper off by mid-February. But here I am, making that resolution anyway (to write, not call 1-800-Jenny Craig I Want to Lose 40 lbs in 10 days, Help). To be honest, I’m not really sure how it’s going to work out for me, seeing as how this single post is like, seriously hurting my brain already, but I’m going to give it a try because a) I like words b) this year is supposed to be life changing or something, and c) what else do I have to do?

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