I think it's time I stated the reasoning for the hair, okay? This is the only time I'm going to explain it, so listen carefully.
I will get my hair cut when -- and only when -- I get invited to my first job interview. This started as an idle thought but has now escalated into bloody-minded defiance. While my job applications continue to be ignored or unsuccessful, my hair will grow. When I get invited to one interview, it will be cut, and I'll probably have a full shave too in order to try and look kind of presentable for the interview.
This means that my hair now also serves the useful second purpose of a meter for my success in seeking employment. With this knowledge, people who know me can see instantaneously just how desperately my job search is going, by noting how long and unkempt my hair is. This will shorten conversations about employment down to:
"Job search going badly then?"
"Yeah."
...freeing up vital conversational seconds for subjects like politics, religion, and the Firefly movie.
This is the point where I should really upload a photo of the hair, but since I have no wish to be haunted for life by such a misguided act, you'll just have to contrive a suitable mental image. Imagine bad hair, then triple it.
But it's not my fault, okay?
And not one day after I posted this, I got my first job interview invite. Wow.
You should now post an image so that we can see the new, clean shaved, short hair version of Chris.
Matt
P.S. And don't take this as though I read your blog. I was actually looking the TSIF and couldn't remember the postfix for it. :)
Wow, just ".org". Oh well. Off there now. By the way, replace "the" with "for" in my previous comment (just before "TSIF").