Got my ears lowered this afternoon...

The guy who usually cuts my hair, Joso, was booked solid today, so for the first time in about five years, someone else did it. George, who seems to be in his mid-to-late 20s and is smokin' hot, did it instead. It's not that big a deal, because he knows how I usually get my hair cut anyway - Joso told him a year or so ago that I'm a Trek fan and that I work on conventions, so now whenever I'm in, if he's not working on someone else, he hangs out and chats with me about Trek. I walked in, and the first thing he said was "So did you see the lifetime achievement thing for George Lucas a couple of weeks ago? Wasn't Shatner hysterical?" Then he asked me why I thought Paramount doesn't make a film version of the Shatner novel in which Kirk is resurrected by the Borg (not having read it, I don't have an opinion - well, actually I do, just not one that's founded in actual knowledge of the book), and if I thought Frakes would be directing a new TNG movie any time soon... then he mentioned that he actually once cut someone's hair once to look like Denise Crosby as Commander Sela. Sometimes getting my hair cut is the next best thing to actually being at a con. Who knew it could be such a geeky experience? *grin* Last time I was in, I had given him the URL for the TT website, but so far as I know, he didn't make it to the con at all. Maybe next year... I think he'd enjoy it.

Alas, when I was making the appointment the other day, it seems I neglected to mention that I had highlights. And then I neglected to mention anything to George until he was halfway done. And it turned out I was being squeezed in between two other appointments, so he wasn't going to have time to do them today. So for the first time in two years, I'm not blond.

I almost didn't recognize myself when I looked in the mirror. (My God, where did all that grey come from? George thinks it's a good look for me because of my eye colour and skin tone - he said it reminded him of George Clooney. I'm not so sure that's a good thing, though.)

So I'm going back on Thursday to get the highlights done. Hopefully I don't bump into anyone I know who has a camera before then...

I think I might have frightened my neighbours this evening. I was watching "The Family Guy" and there was a bit that had me almost falling off the couch, I was laughing so hard (not to mention loudly):

Brian: "I think this whole thing is about as pointless as Peter's cow kite."

[Cut to Peter running holding a ball of string, which snaps, and he looks back and sees a cow still firmly on the ground.]

Peter: "How do you get her to stay up?"
Cleveland: [flying his own cow] "You have to get her to start running first."

Oh. My. God. I don't know why, but I couldn't stop laughing all through the commercial break.