due some posts on another site that is basically irrelevant and i won't link here i have given myself a little brain sprain.

i am gonna articulate two thoughts/positions i am currently holding about classism and aesthetics and, ultimately, hairdressing. i feel like they conflict, i don't know how to resolve them, and i would appreciate any discussion, correction, or recs for theory i could read to help myself clarify this.

Alicja Kowalczyk, a Polish immigrant to the Pacific Northwest in the year 2005. brother died during his compulsive military service in 1995 under extremely mysterious circumstances, only some of which she is privy to. because of this, she is A: keenly aware of the existence of the bizarre and supernatural, and B: a conspiracy kook. she also wears his old military fatigues basically everywhere she goes, partially as a coping mechanism and partially just because they're damn fine clothes.

Alicja moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue a higher education and a career in the (at the time) booming tech sector. rode high for about a year before losing everything when the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, when the company she worked as the chief technical officer at imploded spectacularly after investors pulled out. she insists that the company could have survived this very day if the CEO hadn't embezzled so much cash up his nose.

currently, when she's not on some hacker or paranormal shit, she now works with her friend and roommate, Mateo Escareno, running a small web/software development and technical consultation contracting company called Sauvie Computing Services. it pays the bills, and finances her real passions - computer hacking and paranormal research. they both live in a run-down but cozy bungalow in/on Sauvie Island, Oregon. both are open homosexuals.