So I have recently tried going without shampoo (also known as "no poo") in an effort to have healthier hair. It's been a few weeks, and so far things aren't going very well. For one thing, my hair has been EXTREMELY oily and kind of gross-looking. So I've been wearing it up a lot, which isn't too much of a problem for me. The other big problem is that my skin condition is getting worse, which is definitely not a goal. I have sebhorrhea, a rather unpleasant condition that is exacerbated by stress, which I definitely have a lot of these days. As it turns out, sebhorrhea is also caused by excess oils.
The idea behind going no poo is that after you stop artificially stripping your hair of its natural oils and the rehydrating with conditioner, your hair will eventually return to it's natural (and supposedly more attractive and healthy) state. This would be all well and good if my skin condition wasn't caused by excess oil, and so I'm afraid I may have to go back to shampooing in order to save myself from looking like an adolescent with acne. Sigh.
In other news, I finally found some motivation to get stuff done today, mostly because I took a half hour nap after I got home. I'm beginning to think that I'm one of those people that does well on a weird schedule. I enjoy getting up in the morning (not as early as I do for work, but 7 or 8 is fine with me) and getting stuff done in the early quiet. I seem to need a nap in the afternoon, and then I'm pretty awake in the evening and often get more and more awake until I reach a wall, at which point I crash. The crash often happens very quickly. I'm not sure how to use this information to keep myself happier and well-rested...
OK, off to sort some papers before bed.
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