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Every summer when the temperatures hit the high nineties I threaten to cut off all my hair and give it away. Every year I had resisted, usually because the boyfriend du jour would pout and say "but I love your hair!"  Roomie has even used that line in the past. So have my kids. So for yrs I have had LONG hair. By long I mean between shoulder length and my knees. This yr  it was past my waist and annoying me. So I went to SuperCuts for cheapo hair cut yesterday. I had washed it and coiled it on top of my head and it was out of my face and you couldn't tell for sure how much of it was there (I usually do that when the heat is up). The poor girl who cut it went into raptures seeing it because as she put it, that was a lot of hair. Turns out SuperCuts in Austin has been donating hair to some company called "Locks of Love", who makes wigs for kids with cancer. So I gave them the hair so some kid who has chemo can have hair and they GAVE me the hair cut for free. I now have the shoirtest cut I have had since the early 90s. Best part? Someone else will have a wig of hair that is in good shape and real. I flat out raved at this while they cut it telling them I love this idea a lot. My Da had cancer and yes he was in his 60s and 70s when he did, but the kids and younger ones well they don't want to walk around bald from side effects so to know that a company who cuts hair and another who donates wigs to these people are working together? Made my day. Now I can imagine someone here reading this thinnking well how much hair did you give? Measured the braid was 3 and a half feet long. Enough they told me for two wigs and red hair is not something they get often so they were happy too.

Told my daughter last night that I had chopped my hair off and she was like "oh Mom! How short did you go and why?" When I told her where it was going she thought it was ubercool too. I am happy that something I didn't want will work for someone else. I had always wanted my hair to go to someone who could use it. Had a friend when I worked at DHS yrs ago with cancer who could not afford a wig when the chemo kicked in wearing head scarves until some company gave her two wigs, to know that people are out there thinking of how others feel when sick about appearance and yes I can see some saying that is superficial, but it really isn't as much as we'd like to think. Cancer treatments affect attitude and Roomie's Mom was just diagnosed last week with it, along with my daughters High School sweetheart(he's only 25!) Any oncologist will tell you attitude is important here. So yeah it may seem superficial but it isan't. So yeah I feel good about giving up my hair and wish in some way I had had more to give.

I haven't been reading as much fanfiction as usual, kind of waiting on the big canon gorge coming up soon and thinking will it work for me? Or will it leave the sick feeling OotP left? I don't mind saying OotP was one of the harder books to get through because it really did have some bad things happen and it ended on such a sad note. I hope that book 6 doesn't but I suspect since it is the one that sets us up for the final it will. I wonder if Harry will be that kid we met in the beginning with more experience and more wisdom or will he be broken by it all.

I dreamed last night of a bookstore where I found books written by fanfiction authors using their fanfiction pennames on the bestseller lists there. Odd how many I recognised and how many fandoms they wrote in. Some of my old Trek friends were there and Highlander and yes HP. It felt comfortable to see them and to see a bookstore  where het, gen and slash writers were all represented. My dreams can be strange places at times.