celebrating manuary

by alex

As an Asian, I am blessed with soft skin, super intelligence, and extreme frugality. However, there are some things that as a race, we just can’t do well. Growing facial hair is one of them.

Ne’ertheless, to celebrate Manuary, I got a head start this year, starting the growth process in mid-December, and throwing off the shackles of society for two months. One of the many side benefits of growing some bad looking facial hair (aside from the obvious, inherent humor value), is that shaving it off was a great, free Valentine’s day gift for Jenny (who absolutely detested it).

A sample daily conversation:

“When are you going to shave? That looks horrible.”

“That’s exactly why it’s funny — because it looks bad.”

“Isn’t Manuary over yet?”

“Can you make me a sandwich?”

My real friends will find the following sequence of pictures to be humorous. Enjoy.

— 2 months of growth

— cleaned up fu manchu

— yarr!

— valentine’s day gift (me)

To see the pictures at full size, go to my beautiful hair set on Flickr.