July 2011
4 posts
Jib.
When I watch ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, I start to think and sometimes talk like Larry David. In last night’s episode (the first of season eight, finally!), Larry used the phrase ‘I like the cut of your jib!’
Today, I went to Starbucks to do some reading and writing. The girl behind the till was friendly and asked how my day was. I shrugged, said it was alright, and...
Ten days post-shave.
We’ve reached the end of the road.
This is the longest I’ve gone without shaving, and I’ve finally reached the conclusion that I can’t grow a proper beard.
I was so close to shaving it all off last night. Anna said that it’d look quite good if I could grow a full face of stubble, but it had gone past that stage and now just looked like I was failing to grow a beard....
Eight and nine days post-shave
I’m sort of getting used to having a beard, albeit a slightly pathetic one. Growth wise, it’s still going, but not much further than the image in my last post. It’s still the case that nobody’s really said anything about it. This means one of two things: 1) it doesn’t look abnormal and maybe even kind of suits me, or 2) it looks stupid and everybody I know is too...
