oh yeah, i forgot to mention. i went to japan today. which is unusual since i went there less than a month ago. hmm. and i'm going to great america tomorrow. perfect. well. it was either great america or aunt's house. so, not that hard of a decision there.

OH! i totally forgot to mention this one thing that happened at the salon. while i was getting my hair cut, the lady asked me if i had a boyfriend yet. while i silently laughed at her question in my head, i told her no. then she asked me if what my mother said was true - that i wanted to go on to grad school and get my master's and i said yes. and then she said, "well, it'll be hard to get a boyfriend then, won't it?" and i'm nodding thinking that she probably means that i'll be so busy studying i won't have time for a boyfriend but no, what she ACTUALLY means is, and i kid you not, she actually said this: "it'll be hard to find a boyfriend because you'll be so smart and the boy has to be smarter than the girl!!"

now what i SHOULD have said was, "EXCUSE ME?!?! did we just go back to 1950?? since when does the man in the relationship have to be smarter than the woman? why can't the woman be smarter than the man? for that matter, why does ANYONE have to be the smarter one in the relationship? what does it matter??"

but what i actually said was, "yeah." see, the fate of my hair rested in this woman's hands. i did not want to piss her off and end up bald. but still. that definitely riled up the feminist in me. grr...

the boy has to be smarter than the girl, my ASS.