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[redbird]

• The chapter I'm writing (my first piece of the current paid project) is going well. browngirl checked over my Minoan section, and confirmed that I have it basically right. Also, I got an answer to my query, and no, I don't need to dig for obscure information on Neolithic cultures in the Yangtze Valley, if there even were any. I won't get my first check until early February, though.
  
• I'm re-purpling my hair, and for some reason, knowing I shouldn't touch my head is making various other bits of me itchy.


• I'm still approachable, it seems. I was on the A train this afternoon (a short hop, having gone out for a loaf of rye bread), and someone apologized for interrupting me, but wanted to ask a question. About my hair. She's considering green, and wanted to know whether I thought it would take on her gray streaks. I guessed, and told her I was guessing--she had a scarf over most of her hair, including those streaks--but described the effect I get. Then I sorted out that she needed a downtown train and assured her that she could get the F at West Fourth Street (she had gotten on an uptown train by mistake, and we were at the north end of the line by then).