~ just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD ~

At this particular moment, I feel inclined to share my opinion on what I feel is a bit of a travesty - - when men opt to grow their facial hair in a manner akin to pubic hair. Now, as a woman, I have often thought about all of those things that I physically cannot do...such as grow facial hair. That particular aspect of my physiology I have frequently been bummed about. After all, I feel that I would look quite dashing with some sideburns and a handlebar moustache. At the same time, I am of the opinion that there are a number of men in this world who abuse the privilege of facial hair. For example, if you scroll to the bottom of this page, you will notice a male who has what appears to be a full bush growing out of his face. In fact, it reminds me of that episode of "Sex and the City" when Samatha decides to "grow it out" because "Smith likes a full bush" and she discovers a grey hair and decides to dye it blond. The hair piece that was designed specifically for that episode looks exactly like the thing growing on that guy's face. Not to judge or anything, but my own personal opinion is that men take way too many liberties with the "goatee" and perhaps the best advice would be to just avoid it all together. In fact, I would go so far as to assert that a general rule of thumb for facial hair would be to avoid anything that makes you look like you have a 'full bush' growing out of your face.

In other news, when I'm not knitting or doing school work, I've been reading Real Food. And it's pretty interesting. It contains a number of bodacius claims which I'm eating up (pun intended) like they were butter. Speaking of butter, eat it. Also, grass fed cows, eat those too. The author has a pretty interesting website as well.

In my world of knitting, there's been a change of plans for the cardigan that I'm working on. My new plan involves knitting it entirely without seams. I've been doing some reading about seamless knitting (particularly in the way of sleeves). This is new territory for me and it's quite exciting. It seems as though most of the techniques involve knitting a sweater from the top down, so this will likely be a bit of an experiment. At any rate, so far this project is going very well.

Posted by jennifer at 12:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)