pmsumner

This was written as a comment to one of those "tell me something about yourselves" meme thingies going on. It was going to be short but I kept on expanding it until I decided it had to be a journal entry on it's own.

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My name's Phil, and I'm an anti-shaver

I detest shaving. Seriously loathe it. I dislike the fact that every day I need to partake of a ritual of soaping up and scraping the growth off my face. I think this is why I hate it so, because I also hate routine. I am terrified that one day I shall turn into the person who walks in the door at the same time and says "honey, I'm home" so predictably that you could set a clock by me, or that says the same thing to the pet on the way out every day, or that leaves spot on the same time to go to work every day, so much so that you spot the same cars in the same traffic jams every day.

I fear the idea so much, I actively create discord in my life. I work shifts with varying amounts of overtime, I never leave home (or work) at the same time, I can't go to bed at the same time, I never watch the same thing on TV every week...

However I also hate the feeling of being prickly and hairy. This creates a certain dilemma. Right now the being hairy thing wins hands-down because I have no mirrors at home, and shaving with no mirrors is....... "interesting" at best.

I also don't think I have ever shaved and not cut myself. I don't know if I am capable of it :) I don't like using safety razors, which probably doesn't help.

Wow, this should be a journal entry :)

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And lo!, it was.