And in response to your comment on my profile, I do think it's good to suck it up. But I also think you can't tell people that until they're ready to see it for themselves. You have to let them exhale before they can suck anything back in.
That said, I'm getting on with life, and please excuse my hiccup.
I was attached to my hair, too. A year ago I wouldn't have parted with it for the world, but I guess part of cutting it off was that I don't feel sad even to be making my appearance unbearable. I just don't care.
And as for useful things, well, it is more a prevailing sense of uselessness from which cleaning is but a minor distraction. Sure, I can [i]do[/i] useful things, but I still [i]am[/i] useless. I think I'm mainly useless because I'm ugly, and I have a twisted sense of gender roles and values that applies only to me.
And also, about hair:
The cells only die above the surface of the scalp. At the root, the younger cells are still alive, and they push the chain of dead ones up as they grow.
You used "and" three times in a short journal, I'd say that's over doing it. Anyway, I know grammar rules - I'm an English major. I said I agreed with you on the topic and there are better ways to do POV changes but this is a writing site for new and old writers, meaning, they're still learning and don't really need to be ridiculed.
Wow, thank you so, so much! I wasn't expecting comments on that one (unfortunately, I had to disable them for such a controversial topic, as I was afraid of getting fights on my journal). It is really nice to know someone agrees, and it makes my day that you would go to the trouble of telling me.
Yay! I've been publishing like crazy recently, I don't know whether you noticed.
I'm backing off a bit cos my readers are trailing behind! Last time I looked no one had read the last two chapters... =D