# Ang likens stuffing a new operating system onto your box to getting your haircut. I think it's more like getting a new pair of boots - you don't do it very often and it takes a few days to get used to the change, but you don't go back.

It's been a bit over two years since I had my hair cut short, and it took me months to get over it. Weeks later I was still using far too much shampoo, wasn't used to my hair drying in minutes rather than hours, still pulled a phantom ponytail out when I put my jacket on. Short hair seems to need so much more looking after - it sticks out at funny angles when you get up in the morning, you can't scratch your head in puzzlement without worrying if half of it is now standing up vertically, Stan Laurel-like, on the top of your head, if you go "overdue" getting it cut it becomes all unwieldy and will turn spontaneously untidy in the middle of the day. It's just bother, all the time. Since growing it long again seems more or less out of the question (I'm not sure I could go through that indeterminate not-short-not-properly-long stage again, and I *know* Nat wouldn't), getting it cut off completely is becoming more and more attractive.

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