I like tania and lunchy's ideas...and linds is right.  Short hair on my tends to look silly.  So I will probably lose about 1/3 of the length and it'll be thinner, which is better than the veritable ski cap of heat that I have now.  Plus yeah, I need to mix up the part.  You can't see it in the photo I had, but sometimes the hairs in the middle stick up and look kind of weird.