Ha!

I dyed my hair today.

Not that this has anything to do with art OR sustainability.  Well maybe it has a little to do with art-- artistic expression and all that.  It's just one streak of red with purple at the end, and is on the underside of my hair and is therefore very concealable.  I felt daring, at least.  I never do spontaneous things like dying my hair, or starting a blog, for that matter.

The funny thing about all this is it has absolutely nothing to do with the new year.  Happy 2013, by the way.  No, this blog and my decision to bleach the shit out of my hair and then make it candy-colored are not my versions of new year's resolutions.  I'm at a time in my life (college) where I can do these things.  I'm not going to be getting a full-time job in the near future, so no one will care about the abnormal streak in my hair. My dad told me that he'd rather I change my hair color than get tattoos or strange piercings or addicted to drugs, so I don't have to face judgement from my family.  And no one at school really gives a fuck what everyone else is doing.  It's college.  As far as starting a blog, my thought about it is: why not?  Who's going to read it? Probably no one except my wonderful boyfriend Rob.  But who cares?  If no one is reading it, I don't have to be self-conscious about writing it.  I guess it's like a diary, except you don't hide it away.  You leave it out and when someone reads it, you don't get pissed.  You just get this little flutter of joy that someone out there cares what you have to say.  Of course, it could be a thirteen-year-old boy who stumbled upon your blog when he mis-typed the URL of his favorite porn site, but who knows.  It could also be someone looking for the next big internet celebrity.  I'm going to just see how it plays out.

I've thought a bit more about where I want to go with this blog.  Most of this "thinking" has occurred in the past ten minutes, while writing this post.  I may post some pictures of art.  My art, or art that inspires me.  I'm also going to do some research, I think.  I'm a sustainability major, so I've already done some research, but I'm going to do a bunch more.  I really want to help save the world, and rather than just write about the things that I should do, I'm actually going to DO them, and write about what I've DONE.  I'm a firm believer that humans are creatures that rely on motivation of some kind.  Rather than act solely with the motivation that I should morally be doing things to save the planet, I'll act with the motivation that I'm now obligated to write about the things that I've done, and should therefore do them in order to write about them.  Of course, this obligation is to myself, and is easily broken.  But I do like to keep the promises I make to myself, most of the time, so hopefully I'll follow through.