Dunroamin

[vaznetti]

I made it to Portland, luggage and all, and am writing this on my office computer. Soon, though, I'm going to go home, because although it's only 4 PM the jet lag is killing me--I woke up at 3 am and could not get back to sleep.

So there will be a more coherent entry later. Unfortunately there is no phone access at home at the moment, so my internet use will be patchy. But thank you all for your good wishes, and now that I've arrived some place I intend to stay for longer than three weeks I hope to stop whining. Or anyway, stop whining about travel.

But! I must share one piece of information with all of you--the house I'm renting, although in all other respects very nice, does not have a shower. Only a bathtub. I have never quite gotten the knack of washing my hair in the bathtub, so I'm looking forward to a year of bad hair days. Seriously. This is verging on the catastrophic.

OK, it isn't really verging on the catastrophic. I'm a little doubtful about finding a shower-attachment that will fit the faucet, but if all else fails I can wash my hair Indian-style with a bucket and jug. And learn to take long, soothing baths. The fact that I managed to wash my hair this morning and it doesn't look too heinous is also reassuring.

Yes, my mind really is this trivial. Also, I must get cable soon. There is essentially no TV reception.

And finally, aceofkittens and fillyjonk, you have corrupted me. I now have a cell phone. I intend to leave it turned off for most of the time though--so there!

Comments

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

if all else fails I can wash my hair Indian-style with a bucket and jug

During my ten showerless years before the new!Bathroom I found that the best bet for washing hair was the kitchen sink and my measuring jug. It tends to be the right height for bending over and dunking your entire head of hair in, which the basin in the bathroom and/or the bath seldom are. Full hair dunking is a good thing, and minimises the number of times you have to fill that jug and pour it over your head to rinse the soap out. Also, if the kitchen sink has a mixer tap, they're usually high enough that you can get some of the shower rinse out effect from them too.

But the best of luck in jury-rigging yourself a shower, or at least a shower attachment. :-)

And there's nothing wrong with having a cell phone, provided you let it know where its place is in the general scheme of things, i.e. extremely lowly. Turning it off for long periods of time should do the trick just fine.

[vaznetti]

I'm not a fan of the kitchen sink for hairwashing: it always feels vaguely wrong to me. I got into the habit of using a jug and bucket in the bathroom/bathtub in India and find that it makes a good substitute and is very water-efficient. So that's what I'll do if I can't sort out an attachment.