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It's a total downer to be unable to sleep. I know I have work early tomorrow, yet sleep has intentionally eluded me just to tease me. I've been tossing and turning since 9pm. Six hours! Six! I've been attempting to drift to my dreamland. Yet a whole lot of nothing.

Instead in my sleep deprived state I somehow ended up purchasing three Phillip Defranco posters. I don't even know how that happens... I blame twitter and PhillyD's sale... $12 for three posters. Sleep deprivation always leads to internet spending. I might have a problem. Sleep purchasing. Some sleepwalk or sleeptalk...Not me.

Have I mentioned I'm a strange one?

I'm not sure where else to lead this post. It's been so long since I posted I'm not sure where to begin.

I cut six inches off of my beautiful long hair mostly due to deep damages to my hair in an attempt to ditch head lice. An occupational hazard I never considered when choosing my career. I suppose I'm naive for not considering such. I daresay this will not be the last time. Especially if I have kids someday.

I want to know why we put shame on getting lice. I'm quite clean. My hair is silky and shiny. As such it's a louse's dream. It doesn't mean I should feel shame buying products to de-lice myself, yet every time I felt embarrassed going into stores to find products to disinfect my hair, car, clothes, and house.

What's the big deal? It's a pain in the butt, it's gross to be sure (who wants creatures living and making babies in their scalp?), but shameful? No. It happens. They're crazy contagious. Super easy to pass on. A lot of work to permanently get rid of. Inconvenient of course. Infuriating to discover you've been infected, but it doesn't mean you're a dirty or awful person.

I think the less shame we put on people for getting it the less taboo it'll become and the easier to prevent outbreaks. Because let's face it some people are more prone to lice. If a louse is chilling somewhere it'll want my delicious blood, seriously ask those mosquitoes- they'll tell you I'm delicious! So when it's a taboo topic it gets swept under the rug and the intoxicating blood will call to louse's and outbreaks will abound.

On a plus side I am a master at disinfecting lice infestations on scalps, cars, and houses. Maybe that'll be my next post.