lost items

someone left a semi-expensive item in our room sometime before last night. E-mail me to identify what you lost and if it is the item in question we can talk about getting it to you.

I also have a number of men's shirts, and I know some of them belong to emmett_the_sane and some of them belong to mikz... I guess whichever of you gets to them first can take the ones that belong to you, and the rest will belong to the other one.

Brains.

I am now safe and sound at home. I was going to work when I got home, but I was having trouble following the rather noncommittal conversation on the ride home, so I think I'm going to go to sleep whether I like it or not.

salon/hairdresser recommendation, SF bay area

My hair has gotten really damaged recently, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it. Torn between cutting it chin length and starting over again (it grows fast -- chin length to bottom of butt length in 4 years), or trying to salvage it.

I'm looking for a hair dresser who I can not only trust to not automatically recommend that I chop off n feet/trim 3 inches when I asked her to trim 1, but also for one that understands truly long hair well enough to help me figure out how repairable it is so that I can make an informed decision about whether to keep it long or not.

SF proper is preferred, but further away is do-able. Hell, I'm willing to travel VERY far if it is somewhere I'm interested in visiting anyway.

Another post will discuss pros and cons and include a poll.

x-posted to sfbayarea, sanfrancisco, and longhair, with some edits

hair

The situation:

The hair is pretty damaged for a variety of reasons...
lice shampoo
combing through for lice
bleach damage left over from college
poor care of the hair

The hair is many different lengths, including some that has broken off at chin length or shorter. Maybe that will happen again if I start over, but maybe I could avoid it and do it right.

My hair grows Really Fast -- chin length to bottom of butt length in about 4 years.

I want a human hair flogger made out of my own hair; Victor in Seattle says it would cost ~$120 to get it made.

The timing is ideal -- it would be perfect to cut it off for my naming or right afterwards. And very symbolic.

Then again, I love my hair so much. Is cutting my hair a symbol I need? And could I wait until my hair is knee length, and then cut some off to make the flogger in question? Or would the bottom of hair that length be too damaged to use?

I may or may not choose to make a silly poll about cutting my hair, but I think comments are much more personal. Here's what I'd like to hear:

• symbolic paradigms to work in that do or don't involve cutting the hair to mark this transition
  
• recounts of the experiences of other long haired folks who have done a similar symbolic sacrifice of their hair

I'm also interested in hearing honest, non-silly comments about how much my hair impacts my attractiveness for you, or other reasons why you don't want me to cut it, or any other thoughts you have on all this.