Not long ago, Leah Frankson, Iñupiaq of Point Hope, now living in Anchorage, posted a facebook message that she had just opened her own beauty salon business (907.720.9848). First, I admit that the idea of a beast like me ever going into a beauty shop is ludicrous indeed, but then good beauticians are also known for their skill at trimming unkempt beasts.
So I decided that henchforth when my hair needed cutting and my beard a trim, I would take both to Leah Frankson and let her do the job.
As it was now time for me to step back into the public eye, it was time to get a haircut and beard trim.
So I called Leah, made an appointment and then stopped in at her Anchorage Salon on my way to the airport. So here we are, Beauty and the Beast, for the obligatory "before" shot.
And here she is, cutting my hair.
Now she trims my beard.
Now for the obligatory "after" shot.
Now I am in Barrow, it is the night before Kivgiq and I have many neat pictures that I took on the way and after I got here. I had decided that I would go ahead, stay up late and make a good post.
As those who have been with me on my more recent travels know, the monitor on my laptop computer has been acting up
I had not turned this laptop on since early December. Tonight, when I first turned it on, it performed perfectly - for about two minutes and then it went completely nuts. Worse than ever.
Now, all I see is posterized pictures, impossible to edit and analyze, images appear and disappear, fade and brighten, change colors, go negative. I cannot really edit them, and I cannot even begin to process them.
So what I have decided to do is to give up any pretense of blogging Kivgiq as it happens at all.
Instead, next week, when I am back home and back at my desktop, I will blog Kivgiq day by day as if it is just happening. For most of you, it will be as new as if I was doing it right now.
For those of you who know and love Kivgiq, you will be all danced out and will actually have time to sit down and take a look.
I will still post something every day - probably just one image of any thing - because it is too exasperating to try to do anything on this monitor.
I can barely even make out the words that I am writing. At least half the time, I can't make them out at all.
My proof-reading will be even worse than normal.
So, excuses right now - Kivgiq next week.
In fact, next week I will start with an image of Leah again, after I have actually looked at all the pictures that I took of her, including these four, and I will write just a bit more about her.