27.8.08

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind...

Horray for post number ten!  

    Now, if it were up to me, I wouldn't count that edit post down there, because hardly any thought went into it and it's only a sentence and a fragment long.

    On that same strain, I wouldn't even count the one before that, because again, little brain power and less substance are behind it.  

    But who's couting?  Blogspot.  Yet another thing in my life I am not in control of.  One thing I am in control of, though, is how many sentences I can end in prepositions.  Here's to you, John Dryden.

    I was thinking the other day about that timeless question: what separates us from the animals?  Many things have been suggested in the past: inquisitive minds, the stock market, opposable thumbs...but as I was thinking about it, I was eating lunch with my brother and I made a breakthrough realization.  

    Facial Hair.






    I could just say vanity in general, but I think that may be taking things a bit too far, as I cannot pretend that cats don't have a certain pompous expression on their face whenever they lick themselves, like, "watch me make myself irresistible."
   
    But think for a minute about how Ludacris it is.  For one thing, humans have hair in the weirdest and most sporadic places, whereas the rest of the animal kingdom goes the all-or-nothing route.  Not only that, but for all the care we take of our dead follicles, you'd think we have some species-wide necrophilia or something.  We shave, we gel, we wax, we pluck...did you know that the average person spends two years of their life primping their hair alone?  I would say that average women bring this number up from more reasonable heights, but then I look at the aforepictured people who not only spend time, but also money on making their beards look good.

    I assure you, if and when I do finally settle down, my choice of man will probably have little to do with the quality of the dead cells on his face.  I say probably only because I've seen some almost-normal people turned creeper by the state of the hair on their face.

    Forgive me.  College students don't do early morning.  I don't know what I was thinking waking up and doing a blog post first thing. 


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