{"id":290,"date":"2010-10-14T03:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2010-10-14T03:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:05:47","slug":"haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Haircut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the day finally came.  This morning I went over and got my hair cut.  This was a rather trepidacious event for me.  I&#8217;m always just a <em>little<\/em> nervous about haircuts.  I never fully recovered from an &#8220;incident&#8221; when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p>Mom nearly sliced my ear off.  Needless to say, she&#8217;s on the haircut blacklist&#8230;. forever.  Given my past and the fact that this is a whole different country with a massive language barrier, you can imagine how nervous I was about this.  The thing was though, I was in desperate need:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/haircut\/IMG_0313.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/haircut\/IMG_0313_small.JPG\" alt=\"Bad Hair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what my hair looked like when I got up.  Nothing can really be done to tame it either, short of a full bottle of gel.  Now, if it <em>stayed<\/em> like that, it might have been OK, but it kind of has this tendency to get worse as the day goes on.  By the time supper rolls around, I&#8217;m scaring children:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/haircut\/IMG_0315.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/haircut\/IMG_0315_small.JPG\" alt=\"Really Bad Hair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I woke up the Mary Jo interpreter and dragged her over to the local hair cutting place thingy.  We were asked to wait in a back room and the stylist would be with us in a few minutes.  While we were sitting back there, we found a German Reader&#8217;s Digest.  I made Mary Jo read the jokes page.  I guess there&#8217;s a word that means both &#8220;cat&#8221; and &#8220;hangover&#8221;, so it was funny.<\/p>\n<p>We also found a book of haircuts.  I flipped through it, hoping to find a picture to point and grunt at.  Most of the hair styles were rather&#8230; gravity defying.  Far too much volume for me.   Toward the back I did manage to find something that was <em>almost<\/em> right.  I had Mary Jo point at it, grunt, and then say &#8220;longer on top&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s an exaggeration.  The stylist was actually very nice and was used to foreigners coming in from the dorm.  She and Mary Jo actually chatted a bit in German, which I think Mary Jo enjoyed.  Before you knew it, I had my hair cut, we paid, and left.  It actually went really well.  I&#8217;d recommend this place to anyone.  I&#8217;d actually say I got a better haircut than in the States.  Come on over, it&#8217;ll be the best $3000 haircut you ever get!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of today will be just sitting around mostly.  Mary Jo has a meeting at 1 and I have my class at 4.  After that we might go out with the people we made dinner with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=283\">other night<\/a>.  Should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did you want to see the final product?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/haircut\/IMG_0319.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/haircut\/IMG_0319_small.JPG\" alt=\"Good Hair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alright, maybe a little less &#8220;creepy gel&#8221; next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the day finally came. This morning I went over and got my hair cut. This was a rather trepidacious event for me. 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