Red ~C Diary: Ireland Never Too Far

"We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with." -- William Butler Yeats Source: The Letters of W. B. Yeats, Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

So I went to my Vietnamese lady barber yesterday to get a haircut....

VLB: Hey, how are you?

~Me: Good, good. It's been a while and my hair looks awful.

VLB: Ok. Same style as before right?

~Me: Yep. Blend it in the back and make it spiky.

VLB: Sure.... (she fires up her electric razor and begins trimming)... You know what, your friend, he was here a few days ago. He got a haircut too.

~Me: Really? So, did you pull out his white hair too?

VLB: (smiling) Yeah, he had lots of white hair. Hihihi.

~Me: He has more than me right?

VLB: Yeah, he has more. Lots of white hair.

~Me: Hehehe. I think it's because he worries too much. Probably stress.

VLB: Yeah. He told me had girlfriend already.

~Me: Really?

VLB: Yeah, if I knew he had a girlfriend I'm not gonna pull out his white hair.

~Me: Huh?! Why?

VLB: Because it's the girlfriend's job to pull out his white hair. Hihihi.

~Me: (chuckle)... So, do I still have white hair? Can you pull them out?

VLB: I don't see anything. No more white hair.

~Me: Nice. Maybe because I'm not stressed anymore.

VLB: You look happy.

~Me: I am. By the way, I'm flying out of the country this Saturday (June 10).

VLB: Ha? Where you going?

~Me: Ireland.

VLB: For how long? Is it for work?

~Me: I'll be there for three months or so. I'll be working from there.

VLB: Wow. That sounds fun.

~Me: It is.

VLB: There. You done. You want something on your hair?

~Me: Just put some gel....

VLB: Ok, you have a safe trip.

~Me: Thanks. See you in three months.

P.S. Blogging will be light in the next few days as I fly to Ireland and get settled on a temporal abode. The reason I'm flying there is to be with ~myDakini and to see Europe for the first time. I didn't tell my lady barber that I have a girlfriend so I can have my white hair pulled out every time I get a haircut. But at the rate that I'm aging (physically and mentally) I don't think my lady barber will be pulling out white hairs from me anytime soon.

Long distance (sucks) is dead.