1. that's it. i mean it this time. no more supercuts.i know every single time i get a haircut i tell myself that's the last time i'm ever going to supercuts... i've been saying that since high school, but by the time 1-2 months rolls around again i start feeling confident again and i say, screw it, let's give it another shot... and i always pay for it. i don't know why i don't learn, no wait, i do know, it's the media. supercuts advertises as a place where guys get haircuts. guys don't go to salons. old guys go to barber shops, but young guys go to places like supercuts. also, guys don't care much about their hair so it's okay for a guy to decide one day, "i think i'll get a haircut today," call them up, drive on down, get it done, split a $20 and get outta there. and supercuts is the best place for that. that's where my brain gets its' logic... but in reality, supercuts is where military guys go to get crewcuts and old guys like my dad go when they finally get tired of their wives nagging them to cut their hair.
so, where do real people go? i can't be the only person who's tired of getting $20 haircuts right? i'll pay for a better haircut experience. this last time i got an old korean lady (who, to her credit, at least made it a pleasant haircut, meaning she was quick, didn't try and make too much small talk, and did a reasonable job considering what COULD have happened), but i think the stylists at supercuts only know how to do one cut, because everytime i go, no matter what i say and how i try to describe what i want done, it always comes out the same... yesterday i told the lady "cut an inch OFF from the top" and instead she cut the top down to one inch LONG!
see? you can see my scalp. i don't want people to see my scalp. plus i was liking my longer hair, it was finally to a length that was easily manageable and comfortable. i just wanted a little trim to keep it longer, but i think those ladies at supercuts are so used to doing military cuts (probably especially in mililani) that they just do every head the same way. still, it wasn't a horrible haircut at least, i did have to go home and trim some strays from off the sides that she missed, which at the time i figured is just something i'd have to do, but if something like that happened with any other purchase you made wouldn't that be cause for customer dissatisfaction? if you bought a new jacket and had to go home and rehem the sleeves because they were uneven wouldn't you consider that a bad buy? same should apply to haircuts right? i should be able to go home and not have to do any kind of adjust on my own right? so i think the problem is i'm setting myself up for failure by going to these haircut chain stores. and i've been trying to look for a real place to get my haircut but it's so hard to find a place that's dumb-guy who doesn't really know anything about hair but just wants a good cut-friendly y'know? so here's my plea: please, ask all your co-workers and neighbors and whoever other guys you know where they get their haircuts, let's start a survey, where do people ACTUALLY go to get their cuts? do guys go to the kind of salons that look like only girls go to? are there places out there beside the $20 chain stores that cater to male clients? is it, in fact, possible at all to get a nice haircut once in your life? it remains to be seen... but mark my words... supercuts, NEVER AGAIN!!2. okay anyway, this is something funny i just read, people on the mainland have been hacking into traffic road alert signs writing messages like this one:
yeah yeah, it's dangerous, blah blah, but c'mon, that's hilarious. i'm glad that whoever did this (sure, it's a crime, but a kinda funny and clever one) was nerdy enough to write things like this. there also have been signs saying "DAILY ROAD CLOSURES DUE TO ZOMBIES" and "RAPTORS AHEAD - CAUTION." haha. i like it.3. american idol hollywood round - i don't like the group round. i think it's crap. the only reason they do it is to stir up drama among otherwise-likeable people. i don't want to vote for anyone after seeing them fight and swear at all their "friends." plus, there's only ONE winner, so who cares about what they sound like in a group? they want everyone to be individuals and have their own styles so why put them in a group? hmm... actually, maybe they just want to weed out the people who are good singers, but don't stand out, i guess that might be a good way to do it actually. i don't think i was too disappoined with anyone who got the boot so far (except for that one pink-haired girl who sang "barracuda," i thought she sang very well, but she bombed twice in the hollywood rounds so no need keep her), although i don't know much about anyone, but i think my early favorites are:
- the guy with the nerd glasses whose wife just died
- the girl who they told to get a make-over and then she came back and sang "bubbly"
- the nerdy indian guy
4. and finally... i was watching tv today and found another good explanation of what i do at my job all day (click here to see the first example). the last one was about the "speech" part of speech-language pathologist... here's an example of what i do for the "language" part:
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