Do you see it?

First the old lady jiggly arms, now this?! Do you see it? Do you see the gray hair? Oh sure, I've had the occasional gray sectional faded into my brunette hair. But those three incidents were brought on by stress.

Look at it! It is not two centimeters of gray in the middle of a brown strand. It is a new gray strand!

I stopped dyeing my hair in 2004. My hair had different personalities in college. I dyed it burgundy most of the time, but it has been purple, blue, and brunette with blond highlights. There was even that time when I tried to go all blond and ended up with orange hair. But one thing my hair was not, was gray. Am I going to have to start dyeing my my hair for necessity now instead of for the feeling of freedom that once accompanied my hair permutations? It makes me wish I still had my tongue ring (or my belly ring, or my nose ring....ai adai).

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Have you ever heard the awkward lull of a conversation that only seconds ago was alive with boisterous laughter? Have you ever overheard it?

You know, the sounds of awkward silence and dying laughter as everyone waits for something else funny to be said? The sound of people racking their brains for something...anything funny and related. And then suddenly someone chimes in with a barely related anecdote of less than mediocre humor.

Yeah. Now that's funny.