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I think I've seen just about every neighborhood in NW DC today. Took the bus up to Shaw to have lunch with internet vegans at Soul Vegetarian. The mac and cheese there is supposed to be amazing, and I thought that it was very good, but not quite as fabulous as I'd been led to believe. Like, if I go there again, I'll get it again, but it wasn't the "OMG!" that everyone says it is. I also had some kind of tofu skin thing which was pretty good (couldn't figure out what was in the sauce -- we guessed coconut milk and a lot of black pepper, but there was something else, too) and yams. If they'd had kale, then I would have gotten that and had something vaguely healthy in this meal, but the greens today were collards and cabbage, and I don't like either.

After that, walked over to Columbia Heights for sweets at Sticky Fingers. I got a cinnamon bun, which was excellent. Then I took the bus down to Whole Foods (in Dupont? Logan Circle? Midcity? No one seems to agree on what neighborhood that is) and got some groceries, stuff that Safeway and Trader Joe's don't have or have for higher prices. (Both soy milk and tofu are way cheaper at Whole Foods than at Safeway.) Then I got out of Whole Foods, and in the time that I'd been in, the street outside had transformed from just having a few more rainbow flags than usual to having balloons and music and all kinds of Pride stuff, including signs on trash cans advertising lube.

Then, caught a cab home, put my groceries away, and am now collapsing on the couch.

Hah! That's because the Pride Parade was today, Hil...and it ends up a couple blocks from there. Or possibly may go as far as there, these days (or just the floats may go down there to get them out of the way).

Yeah, it looked like they were lining up floats, but it wasn't part of the actual parade route. Lots of music and balloons, though.

Also, I noticed an interesting ad on one of the bus stops. It's that picture of President Bush in an airplane looking out over the Katrina damage, and underneath a pair of black hands (no face or body on this person, just hands) holds a sign that says "AIDS is DC's Katrina."

Also, the food at Soul Vegetarian is incredibly filling. I ate maybe a third of what they gave me, and that was five hours ago, and I'm still stuffed. If I'd been going right home, I would have taken the rest with me, but I didn't really want to carry it all over the city the rest of the afternoon.

So ... I might have chopped all my hair off.

This was me a couple of weeks ago: [link]

This is me today: [link]

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I swear, there is precious little that makes you feel wuite so magnificent as you do after a few hours in a good stylists' chair.

Yay short hair again!!

Oooh, I like the new haircut, Aimee.

Thanks, Hil!! I feel more like my self with short hair than I ever do with longish hair. Thank God for good stylists.

So there's a really cute woman working backstage at the show I'm designing. And do I have the guts to ask if she's single, or would like to go on a date?

No. No I do not. This is why I will be single forever.

Love the new 'do! I think you look fresh and sassy.

And now she's chatting up the sound board op.

Women are never interested in me. I am utterly unattractive in any way. At least that is what the overwhelming evidence suggests.