Didn't recognized Jhoan without his awesome hair.
I aged five years backwards Benjamin Button style and my hair receded. My "iconic" hair isn't going anywhere any time soon. I think a new self-portrait is in order to reflect the changes. I've thought about making comics joking about the pros and cons of having such hair.
Yea, I think he should get that cut again tho.
I've come to embrace the long hair so I dunno if I can go back to a shorter hair style until it I either get completely tired of it or something triggers me to cut it. I got a bunch of more compliments on it volunteering at the women film festival over the weekend. Being compared to Reggie Watts is pretty boss in my book even though I can't grow a beard like him.
Funny enough, I had a conversation with two girls over the weekend after one of them complimented my hair. When I showed them a picture of me with shorter hair, one liked the shorter hair pic, the other one didn't. Both were equally surprised how different I look. My brother thinks I looked better in that picture. I'm considering trimming it by half and getting dreadlocks. Then again, I've stopped untangling my hair because it's gotten too thick so it's naturally dreading and it's a bit itchy.
For me, going back to a really short hairstyle would mean to be invisible and look like everyone else which is not what I want. I want to stand out and be seen for better or worse. So far, I think it's been working well for me but if you have a short hairstyle that would suit me, I welcome suggestions. An NPR article that I recently read
shows that there's still bias against curly hair.
Back on topic: Yesterday's date went okay. I'm not sure if there was much chemistry because the girl ended the date an hour into it citing that she wanted to be in bed by 9pm. Plus it was a cold departure because she didn't hug me. She talked a whole lot about her job and how she's only been in living the city for eight months. I was trying to avoid talking about jobs since it's a topic that is generally dry but she kept rambling on and on. At times it felt like she was venting even though she said that she loves what she does and I found some the stuff that she was working on interesting.
On the other hand when I told her that I freelance and don't have a 9-5, she was a bit envious and lamented not having much free time. It was a bit weird to be honest but then again I understand her point of view. She also mentioned being neurotic so I dunno if that gels well with me. I would meet up with her again to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I got more of a platonic vibe and ironically felt sorry for her. Her yawning from time to time didn't help.
I spent the rest of the night after she left chatting to my brother, working on a GAF portrait, and watched a documentary called
Tower on PBS before I went home. Funny side note: This was the first date where someone guessed that I'm from Little Rock, Arkansas which I've never been to. I'm going to use that on future dates to troll women.
