THAT LOOK, YOU KNOW

When I returned from my walk around the neighborhood my apartment mate was on her computer listening to Zadok The Priest while typing. Zadok the Priest has been sung prior to the anointing of the sovereign at the coronation of every British monarch since it was written, and has become recognised as a British patriotic anthem. As you know, she is not English or British. But, being a San Francisco native (Chinese American), many of her tendencies and tastes are a bit Brit-like. Standards, boy! A person of whichever gender they identify with must have standards!

An idea with which I tend to agree.
Plus curry. Tea. And shaving daily.

Seeing as she is a woman, I do not expect her to shave daily. However if I don't shave every day I feel grungy. It's what an adult does. Along with teeth and a shower. Apparently having a five o'clock shadow is a sexy look, much striven for, which tells you something about modern society. Inexplicable. And anyway, it doesn't work in combination with a beard and mustache. Everywhere where the beard and mustache aren't should be clean and smooth, the actual B and M neatly trimmed.

Justifiably, not being presentable may elicit stern looks from a whole range of people.

And I'm sure that crow is wondering why I left the house without shaving too. That scruffy look is mildly upsetting, do I not have standards? What is wrong with me?

Corvids sneer at the skeevy look.
Somehow I am not suprised.

He doesn't understand the imperative to have the first smoke of the day BEFORE the second cup of coffee, only after which one will shower. It's not even fully light out, and people walking their dogs or jogging haven't shaved either. Please stop looking at me with stern disapproval, bird, at this hour very few people are fully presentable.

It's getting light out. And I've finished that pipe.
Time for a second cup and some doomscrolling.
And then go have a shave and a shower.



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