SESAME STREET TUESDAYFor many years I have worn a beard in March. The reason is usually because of an opera role, including last year and the year before (aka "The Mustache Era"). This year, however, I decided to grow a beard despite an opera role. On January 23rd, the day of my first recital, I shaved for the last time. Normally I keep my beard neatly trimmed, but this time I decided to just let it grow out, partly out of curiosity and partly because I couldn't find the charger for my beard trimmer. I was kinda hoping that it would end up looking like this:
But alas, my director staged a beard intervention on Sunday (totally saw it coming) and after 64 days I finally had to trim it down. I didn't think it looked too crazy most of the time:
However, if I did want to go nuts with it, I could fluff it up like this:
In the end my director and I compromised and he said that I could keep a goatee, in my director's own words, "like when George Clooney has a goatee." So I shaved it down and here's how I look now with the goatee:
Not too shabby, eh? However, I look a little different once I'm in costume:
Funny how different I look here - must be the scarf.P.S. - In my first area on my mission I lived in a neighborhood of Campinas named "The 31st of March." I asked many people in the neighborhood what significance the day had, but nobody had an answer. Brazilians like to name places after random days of the year - our mission office was on the street "The 10th of September" and one of the main thoroughfares in Piracicaba is "The 15th of November." Piracicaba named their pro soccer team after that street - can you imagine a sports team named "The 15th of November?" Most people just called them "The 15."
So if any of my Brazilian friends who live in "The 31st of March" are reading this post, I hope you have a lovely namesake day.
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