Boo

Your humble scribe has just had his first haircut since 2019, and goddamn is his head cold right now (winter may not have been the best time to do it)…

…I’m actually happier with it than I look, that’s just my standard selfie bitchface. The last time I actually got it “properly” cut was actually some time in 2018 when Joe shaved it all off for me; after that, however, when it grew back it did so unevenly, coming back longer on the left side than the right. So, in 2019, April the 9th thereof according to Instagram, I got a trim to try and rectify that… which didn’t work in the long run, unfortunately, and also it took off more hair than I’d really wanted.

Cos I quite like myself as a longhair, I spent a large part of the oughts with it reaching below my shoulders; but at the end of the oughts The Incident happened, and once I was out of hospital getting it hacked off was a priority. Maintaining my majestic mane (?) at that length was not something I could exactly do with ease any more…

That’s what I looked like on the weekend before The Incident at my friend Brendan’s place (that was his coat I was trying on). I rather miss that hair, which is why I have made small attempts at growing it back in the years since, most notably since the big shave of 2018… the problem, of course, was the aforementioned unevenness with which it grew back, and also the snail’s pace at which it did so, basically it reached a certain limit and then refused to go any further.

So it’s been kind of shitting me to tears for the best part of five years now, and I’ve kept meaning to get it chopped again; the pandemic lockdown obviously closed barbers & hairdressers for quite a while so that got in the way, but also, every time I was sick of it and washed it for the purpose of getting it cut, I found myself actually liking the look of it again… and I still liked the look of it this afternoon before leaving the house; I had to go to Eastgardens today to pick up prescriptions today anyway, and I’d decided the time was finally here… though, as I said above, the time was arguably quite wrong and I should’ve waited for warmer weather, but no. No more dithering. I am consequently somewhat less of a hairy loss than I was when I got up today. Just need to shave the sides of the face a bit and lose that excess fur…