Wildcat: shoulda taken a photo for you while I was reattaching yesterday, but forgot. Next time if I remember I will.
The piece makes a dramatic difference in the way I look - it adds about a point to my looks (according to a friend) on a 10 point scale, which is a very big deal. Literally everyone I know (with one exception) has noticed it, and it's quite interesting to note the reactions - some people say something, some people don't, some people say I look different but don't verbalize why, some people ask me if I did something different to my hair. The most extreme reactions --one guy didn't notice at all (then again, he didn't think I was balding before, which shows his powers of observance are about 0), and two people literally didn't recognize me - I guess they recognized me before by my huge forehead.
Re: school, I wore a hat for 2 weeks to ease the transition, and the first day I took the hat off was during finals, so people were preoccupied with their own shit.