Today promises to be a hellish day. Doctors and hospitals are on strike and only emergency care will be provided. I heard on the news that something like 50,000 operations had to be canceled today. Transportation workers are again on strike, meaning I can't make it to the places I need to get to. And since I'm freelance, if I don't hustle, I don't get paid. I wonder if the transportation workers think about the "common person" when they decide to strike for whatever it is they want this time (Thirty-hour work weeks as opposed to 35-hour work weeks? Forty days of vacation instead of 35 days of vacation; OK, I could be off on this but I remember reading in the Corriere della Sera that tram workers, for example, work 35-hour weeks, make more or less the same salary I was making at my last job and get very cushy benefits). Yesterday it was the Alitalia workers on strike and all flights were canceled. There are so many strikes, who can keep up? After 32 days of drought, the past few days have been cold, gray and rainy. Today promises much of the same and with no public transportation, traffic is sure to be even more of a nightmare than it usually is. But I'm doing whatever work I can from home and venturing out for only one thing: to go back to my natural hair color. Basta mousy brown. Bentornata bionda.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Bionda
Today promises to be a hellish day. Doctors and hospitals are on strike and only emergency care will be provided. I heard on the news that something like 50,000 operations had to be canceled today. Transportation workers are again on strike, meaning I can't make it to the places I need to get to. And since I'm freelance, if I don't hustle, I don't get paid. I wonder if the transportation workers think about the "common person" when they decide to strike for whatever it is they want this time (Thirty-hour work weeks as opposed to 35-hour work weeks? Forty days of vacation instead of 35 days of vacation; OK, I could be off on this but I remember reading in the Corriere della Sera that tram workers, for example, work 35-hour weeks, make more or less the same salary I was making at my last job and get very cushy benefits). Yesterday it was the Alitalia workers on strike and all flights were canceled. There are so many strikes, who can keep up? After 32 days of drought, the past few days have been cold, gray and rainy. Today promises much of the same and with no public transportation, traffic is sure to be even more of a nightmare than it usually is. But I'm doing whatever work I can from home and venturing out for only one thing: to go back to my natural hair color. Basta mousy brown. Bentornata bionda.
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These strikes are getting ridiculous. It seems like they happen every other day. Ugh..I would hate to be in a hospital today.
Wow...it's realy pouring out ! Sinse it is impossible to move around the city today my only venture out will be to blockbuster. Great day for movie watching.
Oh...and welcome back to the blonde world! hehe
Autumn,
I'm blonde-ish again, and all is right with the world! I saw the picture on your blog of you and your friend in NYC. You ARE blonde. Today I did just a few colpi but I'm heading back in your direction.
Michelle
The impression you get from Italian TV is that blonde is the most common hair colour in Italy.
(often blonde with dark regrowth)!
While in fact most Italians have brown hair.
What does it all mean?
Italian TV is not only grossly sexist and vacuous but statistically misleading!
Hope it works out. Hair colour is therapy!
I was born blonde (see pic). No attempt on my part to look like a velina. :) Actually, there are a lot of natural blondes in Milan, and I don't feel out of place here at all. The only thing I watch on Italian TV these days is the news. You know what they say: Se hai Sky, ciao ciao RAI.
Hehe, I went to Bumble and Bumble in NYC to get my hair done. My agency used to send me there during my modeling days.
They made me very blonde..hehehe. I don't mind, I like it. I have naturally dirty blonde and it's so blah.
This color reminds me when I was just a kid!!
I've never been to Bumble & Bumble, but I've used their products. Nice smell. :)
Michelle
I like blonde hair but as a natural born brunette whose hair turned a shade of gray when I tried to dye it blonde (in the 80s) and is afraid to try such a change again, I've got to defend that color. It's nice. good camoflage if you fall down on a muddy hill.
Not sure what it's like up there in the North but down here in the South (ok center) you see a lot of "blondes" but they have dark skin, dark eyebrows and dark roots. Not a good look.
I'm also a natural dirty/mousy blonde - and for us peroxide is a necessity. :)
J.Doe,
I'd have no a problem if my hair were brown. There are so many nice shades of brown. But that dishwater blonde color is just so drab. It really makes you look washed out. Like Ramona said, peroxide is key!
Michelle
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