6 February 04
Haircut in Davis
I just accepted a new job at the Wildlife Health Center which is part of the Vet Med department here at UC Davis, and located about five minutes’ walk from where we live. Just hate those tough commutes. I start on February 23 and my lunchtimes are filling up fast; all my lunch buddies are starting to panic as if I were abandoning them. I’m not. I never miss lunch and I plan on biking in often. Memorial Union food is too good to give up on.
Still and all, it doesn’t leave much time for chores over the next two weeks, so I dashed over to Angie’s Beauty Salon, haircuts $12, before lunch today.
Ana Mara usually trims my hair (it takes about five minutes). However, today she was having a “weave” done. This involves foil, dye, incantations, and lots of minutes under the hairdryer. I told her she looked like a “reina,” a queen; she said it was more like “un hombre del espacio.” Angie started on my trim instead.
A Japanese student with moderate piercings wandered in. He wanted not only a weave, but a weave like THIS (he produced two magazine photos) and a haircut like THIS (another photo). While Sonia started preparing foils and potions he animatedly explained to Ana Mara, who half emerged from the hairdryer so she could hear, how he had tried but failed to dye his hair yesterday; it hadn’t worked, and where could he get toner? (I had to whisper to Angie to ask what toner was and what it did.) And he was going home tonight to San Jose and wanted his hair to be done. I was fascinated. And pleased that the connection he seemed to have with all of them was similar to mine. It’s a great place to get a fix of—of what? Girliness? Hardly, after today. Fix of focus on hair, I guess.
An Anglo with long gray hair, three Mexican American hairdressers with weaves, one Japanese man, ten minutes.
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Jenny: I’ll probably be writing more about the new job when I start it. I’m going to be doing their publications. It’s full of wildlife veterinarians and the dress code is a bit more casual. Lots to write (there was a huge thing recently when a man got killed by a mountain lion down south and a woman got mauled; they have an ongoing study of mountain lions. Also orcas in Puget Sound; also oiled wildlife on the coast here); lots more to design.
boy, no kidding! I just checked out their website. Land of opportunity, there. Let’s get some motion, some screams, more info (I’d love to know more about feral horse research, fristance)-donor magnets! You GO!