My recent transformation

Never before has my physical appearance undergone such a transformation as it has in the past few weeks! While possessing the long and scraggly beard, I decided to have some fun with it...

Dressing up as Abraham Lincoln and reciting the Gettysburg Address

George Harrison of the Beatles at the English Cafe

Old man Antonio in "Much Ado About Nothing"

The incremental shave! I decided to surprise my fifth graders the week after the play by shaving off segments of my face while they were gone to other classes! First, was Lincoln (or an Amish man)

Then Alexander Pushkin, the famous Russian poet! I'm told I bear a striking resemblance to him! One teacher friend suggested that I go home on the metro as Pushkin. At first I hesitated, but then I decided to do it! Why? I thought, "Why not brighten a bunch of Russians' day?" So I did get quite a few mystified stares, a number of smiles, one prolonged gaze from a 12 year-old, and countless glance-aways, almost as if to say, "That guy's a freak...I can't bear to look at him any longer"!

But that's not all! Daniel Clark then had the idea of helping me get my first mullet ever. Before school last Wednesday, he carefully shaved the sides of my head so as to give me the ever so cool "business up front, party out back" effect, which is quite popular here with young boys and teenagers.

I only had the mullet for five hours before getting another haircut and returning to normalcy...finally!