Pain Pain Pain...

While it is true that I have willingly undergone pain - piercings, bleaching etc. - it has always been at the hands of another, far more experienced person. I would never attempt to do these things myself, as I have neither the training, nor the self control.

All of these things however, tend to become somewhat secondary to a students primary concern - money. Rest assured, I have not bleached my hair, I have not pierced my own ears. These are things that I can justify paying for.

I bought a home bikini waxing kit.

I assumed that as with most painful things, it is most important to ride the wave of adrenaline. Most of the pain must must must be completed while the adrenaline is high, or you're toast. Or in a lot of pain. Part of me must have forgotten this cardinal rule, as I took my own sweet sugary time ripping off various strips here and there, aiming for symmetry if nothing else.
To my chagrin, though in hindsight, without surprise, the pain set in far before I was completely..um.. shorn. I am nothing if not determined, so I continued on, jumping and wailing and getting wax all over the goddamn place until I yelped, jumped, and got stuck to my desk with wax.
I can now justify paying for a bikini wax. Student be damned.