oh, beth that sucks. i'm sorry. i completely know how you feel. senior year of college, i cut my hair off - it had been past my waist, and i cut it to my chin. a big change. i went in and asked for it "shorter in the back, longer in the front" and i got these very first-lady or newscaster-ish layers which were *shorter* in the front, and so not at all what i wanted. it took me a year to find anyone who understood "longer in the front, shorter in the back," and another year and a half to find a hairdresser i loved.
depending on how short your hair is now, there are some options - i'd experiment with hair products. you can either try to relax the curls - friz-ease wind down is amazing and i love it - or play with them and go sort of messy - a soft-hold gel would be good for that. clips and bobby pins might also help you out.
i know how much it sucks to hate your haircut - "it'll grow back" is no consolation, since it's so damn slow! but in the week after a haircut your hair does calm down a little as the edges get less blunt, so hopefully that should help a little. ::hugs::