So this past week I have been on Spring Break, and celebrated by 1) dying my hair jet-black with a magenta fringe; and 2) getting a nose piercing. Now, I love them both dearly, but in light of the fact that I have a major citywide string festival to conduct this coming week, I decided that I needed to pick my battles where school was concerned...so as of this morning, the magenta is gone, replaced with a still-edgy but much more believable brown-black. *sigh*
I also teach a preservice teacher class on string methods at a local college, and I did let them have the full effect of the nose ring and the pink hair. (They were duly impressed.) I told the young impressionables that they too can be all counterculture like me provided that they meet all of the following criteria:
1) The district in which you work has no dress or appearance code (check)
2) You're tenured with at least ten years of positive evaluations, a good reputation, and no infractions on your record (check)
3) Your brother-in-law is an attorney with a hate-on for dress codes, just in case (check - Thanks, Glenn!)
So I'm off to school, and I will have my little nostril stud, but my hair will be the same color it was when we left for break, and for a few weeks I will not wear my loud eyeshadows (I look really good in Urban Decay "Graffiti" but what can you do), and I will fly under the radar.
But I can't promise that the magenta - or maybe I'll do violet next time? - won't be back. I looked good. Take that, establishment!
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