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Well, it was all going fine with the not washing, I was happy with the condition it was in — manageable, not greasy, a little curly — but then I got some free hair dye from Dan’s sister Becky (thanks) and realised I could fix those huge roots I had. I remembered Jen had voiced an interest in dying my hair, so last night I let her at it. It worked really well, thanks Jen.
So now my hair is a pleasant shade of burgundy, and I don’t mean it looks French. The nowash experiment will have to be put on hold until I stop caring how it looks again.

In other news, coughing makes my head hurt.

It’s been about 2 weeks since I last shampooed my hair. I rinsed it only this morning, but I haven’t had the time or the inclination to properly shampoo and condition since our hot water tap broke on our bath/shower a week and a half ago.

This led to an interesting suggestion from Jen — try not washing it for a while. Apparently it goes back to some sort of “natural state” after about 6 weeks.

I did some research (read: browsed the interweb) and it looks like lots of people have found that their hair is perfectly manageable, in some cases more manageable, without the use of anything but water to clean their hair. I did find a horror story about cradle cap, but the guy in question was not brushing or rinsing his hair, so it probably doesn’t count. Some reports of external smells staying in the hair, but when pubs are non-smoking this will be much less of a problem.

So, I think I’ll give it a go. I’ll call this the 2 week mark, and count on from there. I’m vaguely reminded of a certain food-related challenge I took up a while back, but I think this will be more interesting.

My hair was very greasy after about a week, but has settled down to a more normal state now. Already an upside: I can have short showers!
I’ll let you know how it goes, and you can let me know if it starts to smell.

So, people keep asking me what it is I do for a part time job, and I tell them I’m a database consultant on a Welsh genealogy project. And they go ‘oh.’ So here’s a link to a BBC News story about the project I’m working on (thanks, Ruth). It’s a little scary to see it all in certain terms in the news: There “will” be a computerised version, which “will” be on the web — these are things that I personally have to see to over the course of the next 3 years. Hi Dad, see, look, I updated my blog. And with information you can pass on to your friends about me, hurrah!

Other things that are going on include lots and lots of coursework. I guess that’s the third year for you. Still, it all looks possible at the moment, just time consuming. I’ve got a group project on as well: as a Masters student I get a group project this year instead of a dissertation, then I do a bigger dissertation next year. It’s thankfully quite closely related to one of my assignments, trouble is, at this moment it means I don’t understand either project! I’m sure it’ll all sort itself out, but I’d better do some reading soon.

This morning I tried to have a shower and the tap broke, I turned and turned it to no avail. I was very sad indeed.

This weekend Dan and I are going to Gregynog to torture some 2nd year Computer Science undergrads who are having mock interviews. Muahaha…

Perplexcity looks like it’ll be winding up soon, but I still feel totally lost when it comes to the big picture. I guess that £100 000 won’t be mine. Still, I’ve got plenty of unsolved cards to work through (thanks, Dan).

And that’s it, the lights just flickered here in a brown-out sort of way, so I’ll wrap it up before the power goes completely off.