clean clothes

i hate doing laundry. well, it's not the actual doing of the laundry--putting clothes in a big machine and pressing a couple buttons is easy. it's the post-wash & dry part that i hate. folding clothes sucks. but that part inevitably comes every single time after the laundry part, so in conclusion, i hate doing laundry.

so i started paying someone to do my laundry. about every other week, i walk down to this cute little laundry shop, drop off my basket of clothes, and a day or two later i come back to a bag of folded, clean clothes.

 

"oh, nicki, you must really be splurging on this."

60 baht. that's it. you see that big bag there? 60 baht. not even $2! hell yeah. life upgrade.

you thought the best part of my life was traveling? ha.

haircut

i'm gonna do it. this afternoon, after class, i'm gonna go to the hair salon down the street and get my hair cut. my hair's needed a trim for a while, but i've been nervous to go. you know, there's that whole language barrier thing.

i'm trying to grow my hair out (no more short hair nicki!), so i want a pretty simple cut--a trim, really. just a trim on my layers and a little feathering in the front. so easy to explain in english. but in thai? yeah, right. you think i have the word "layer" or "feather" in my vocabulary? or that "feather" even means the same thing over here?

so i found a picture of pretty much what i'm asking for. it's kristin cavaleri (or however you spell her last name), and i really super hate that whore, but she's got a nice, basic little hair cut in this picture. i printed her out, and i'll take her with me this afternoon. maddy's coming, too, so she can document and yell out if the hair stylist starts doing something really bad.

wish me luck.

POST HAIRCUT UPDATE:

well, i guess i'm not growing my hair out right now.

 

i think i match some of my students now. maybe we can bond over it?

boyfriends

i was teasing a girl in my class for talking on her phone after class started.

"who is that, your boyfriend?"
"no, mai mi! mai mi!" (i don't have one!)
"oh, surrrrrrre."

this prompted an after-class personal question from some other girls.

"teacha. you have boyfriend?"
"nope. i'm single."
"but you're beautiful!"

i know, girlfriends. if only everyone in the world were as aware of my stunning good looks as you are.