Hair today, gone tomorrow
Does your own laziness ever annoy you? Well mine is at the moment - or at least the result of it: a beard.
It's now around six weeks since I last had a shave, the longest I've ever gone - six weeks of pretending to be engaged in a more hardcore version of Movember. For the last three weeks or so, I've given up all hope of taming the beast - razors would be powerless (even ones with five blades), and it'd probably blunt a Flymo.
The only benefit - a warmer chin than might otherwise have been the case in the recent chilly weather - is definitely outweighed by the fact that the hairs are curling over and pricking my lips and the corner of my mouth, and that when I'm not ACTUALLY getting food caught in it a la Mr Twit, I still feel like I am.
It's quite appropriate for this evening's work Christmas party, which has a nautical theme (me neither...), because I look like a salty old sea dog, but I'm determined it's all coming off this weekend - not the best timing, perhaps, given that I'll look out of place amongst all the post-metal beardos at Monday's Isis / Torche gig, but it's already gone quite far enough...
Thursday, December 04, 2008
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Wow, snap.... except my recent face-fungus was a result of a bet that I couldn't grow the shockingly sinister musketeer-style 'tach/goatee combo I had drawn-on for Halloween. You might get to see it in a few weeks, assuming Mum doesn't cheesegrater it off as soon as I walk in the front door.
I had a 'tache for 30 days for Movember, and that was more than enough (and also the longest I've been without shaving, I think... my previous record being the 3 week beard I grew in South America). As you say, it's the hairs around the mouth and lips that are the worst - either getting in and around your mouth or just generally itching as you move your face about. Ugh. I don't know how people put up with it on a longer term basis.
6 weeks is a great effort though. How did it go down at work in the scruffy, developmental stages?
ST
Picture please.
Also can we have at least one comedy tache when you shave the beast off?
Get. It. Shaved. Off. Now.
Lest you start looking like a certain, recently departed Mackem's boss...
Simon: This I've got to see...
ST: General itching isn't so much of a problem (although the neck's a bit irritable) - it really is the mouth region that's most annoying. As for how it went down at work in the scruffy, developmental stages - well, it's not yet out of them... My laziness has extended so far as not even touching it for a tiny trim.
Paul: Just have a look on Facebook - bound to be some on there somewhere. A comedy 'tache? Possibly...
Gliiitches: Sadly, growing it long has revealed it also has greyish elements to it (a la Keane) - very disappointing...
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