WHAT I'M DOIN' # 16: Haircut! Twice a decade, whether I need it or not!

About four years ago, I shaved my head at midnight, January 1st, 2007. I was curious to see how much it would grow in a year. At the end of the year, I'd intended to get a normal haircut, but then I thought "I wonder how long it could grow before anyone complains?" So I let it go. Then I changed jobs, and no one really cared about my hair, so I decided to just let it ride for the novelty of it. My hair's generally on the long side, but I decided to pump it up from "Rakish n'ere do'ell," beyond "Hobo," beyond even "Civil War Re-enactor," all the way to "Aging Rock Star."
Of course I'm in my early 40s, I'm getting a bit paunchy, and the mirror has recently told me that I look less like an aging rock star and more like a comic book store owner. That's the one thing no one in the world wants to look like! I'd intended to give myself "The Grandest Mohawk Of Them All" for about a year now (It would have been nearly two feet tall, and I haven't had a 'Hawk since I was Thirty. By the way, we're talking *real* mohawk here, none of that fauxhawk crap.) I figured it would have made a good cover photo for my next CD by my band, Republibot 3.0 and the Republibot 3.0 Orchestra, Featuring Republibot 3.0, but it's summer, it's hot, it's tedious, it keeps falling in my soup, I look like a fat man who has coversations about Supergirl's underwear and why Lost isn't as good as The Simpsons, and I just couldn't stand it anymore.
Also, you wouldn't believe how often the shower drain cloggs up when you've got long hair.
Anyway, so I just cut off about nine inches, which leaves me with about a foot overall. (Yes, I can cut my own hair. It's a weird ability in one who isn't gay. Immediately afterwards I put on a shirt inside out without noticing it. It had a button-down collar. Not only am I not gay, I'm *VERY* not gay.)
Also, I've spent all morning scheduling Chip's novel ("Climbers") to run on Original Fiction Sundays. I've got 20 chapters in the shoebox, and at 160 pages left to go. This thing is gonna' run for a while.
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