Wednesday, November 7, 2001
The Importance of Being Hair Dressed - To MLDL
Today is my mother's hairdressing appointment. It is understood between us that this also involves her feeling, within an hour or so of having her hair done, tremendously good in several ways and wanting to do some protracted people watching. She'll want to go out for lunch and try to get me to look at perfect strangers behind me because there is something about them she wants me to see. She is a subtle, shameless, delightful gossip. She also once told me, which continues to amaze me when I think of it, that she was incredibly vain as a young woman, up to her early 30's; she was, also, I know, I remember, quite beautiful, in a classic sense. The art department of the college from which she graduated would often borrow her as a face model. Maybe we'll sit in the park if it is warm this afternoon. If I have places to go she may go with me and enjoy herself.
