Lip Beard

Okay, I've been contemplating this topic for some time now but lacked the time to give it adequate letters to form the words to give the topic credence.

The upper lip beard. Sometimes it is referred to as a mustache, but I'm going to stick lip beard because it's easier to spell. When this endevor began this year I swore to not shave my cheeks, chin, or upper lip for a month. I was allowed to shave the neckbeard (as already discussed and rediscused, and commented on at length) and did so. I am also led to believe that I am allowed to trim the lip beard for the same reasons as the neckbeard (namely comfort and avoidance of comparison to a person more insane than one usually portrays themselves).

Well, this is where I am. My lip beard has been driving me crazy for 3 days now. Not around 3 days. Not, "I sort of noticed it 4 days ago and then it got worse". No no no. 4 days ago I was fine and there were no problems. 3 days ago I woke up and my lip beard was trying to devour my lip lip.

It turns out that the lip beard has an exceedingly slow digestive process, which while not particularly painful, is quite annoying and has led to much stroking in order to ease the discomfort. This, in term, runs the risk of clogging pours and causing blemishes, and really, why do I have to be a 30 year old bearded teacher with a complexion more fitting for someone my students age.

So here I am, left with a quandry. Do I trim the lip beard and face the ridicule and attacks of my fellow beard-ers? Do I man up and take it like a...uh...man (dang, got my turns of phrases crossed)? Do I seek an option three?

I think I'm going to go with leaving it and slowly increasing my insanity as the scratch scratch scratch gets worse and worse. The real test here will be can my sanity and lip lip survive the digestion process before the month ends.

In my ears: This Week in Tech (TWiT)...yeah, two days in a row, I was a week behind.

Beard level: Nothing special except at my upper lip.

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