In this month’s issue of The Believer, Ani Difranco on her dreadlocked hair:

“I try to make the world a more colorful place if I can. But now, this is just an effortless way of indicating outwardly that I am not with the status quo. It just makes me more comfortable as I move through the world. I like to be in an airport surrounded by businesspeople and clearly not be one.

Just sharing.

You know, I can be pretty easy to please. I make myself a list, I accomplish the things on that list, and I’m happy.

Now if only the whole getting-a-job-in-a-new-city thing was as easy to accomplish as these five work items.