Unexpected and Accidental Triumphs

[rinue]

1. Had blood drawn as part of a physical, which has happened for one reason or another over the past three years, and I've noticed: my blood is very easy to draw these days. Nobody ever misses a vein, or complains about them moving around or collapsing or being hard to find, or any of the other grousing I am used to from lab techs. It's all now totally routine, and I never have a bruise afterward. I have no idea what the source of this change is. Maybe people are now better trained. Maybe they've invented a better needle. Maybe I have somehow gotten very good at the bit where you clench your fist to make the blood vessels pop up. Maybe younger people's veins are squirrely and I have aged past it. Who knows? But it is exciting like being able to touch my toes.

2. Being romantically involved with an actor means you have to put up with all kinds of outlandish hair that is necessary for roles. Fact. In particular, it's really common, if a man is playing anyone at all from before around 1600, for him to be asked not to shave or cut his hair for months, because in "yore" men were uniformly scraggly, says theatre. Ciro is in rehearsals for something set in Ancient Greece, and therefore shaggy. Which means at the moment he looks like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. This is very acceptable.

Comments

[knaveofstaves]

Your husband is so hot.

It's tragic.

[liquidmorpheme.livejournal.com]

He's only medium cute.

[rinue]

Apparently he is handsome but kind of oblivious. Alas.

[rinue]

Apparently these are quotes from Go, but I don't immediately recognize quotes from Go. Alas.

[knaveofstaves]

If it is any consolation, I don't recognize the "medium cute" line so I had to guess its origin based on context.

[pengolodh_sc]

Don't know abobut uniformly scraggly. "The Danes, thanks to their habit of combing their hair every day, of bathing every Saturday and regularly changing their clothes, were able to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses." (John of Wallingford (John de Cella) about Viking Age Scandinavians in England.)

[liquidmorpheme.livejournal.com]

She says scraggly, but really it's just long hair. I plan to oil my beard and line my eyes with kohl.

[rinue]

Great, great quote.

Unfortunately, I've watched a lot of plays and can tell you with confidence that everyone from the past wore either brown burlap rectangles or draped rayon. Regardless of national origin, gender, or social station. Unless theater is some kind of fiction and the past isn't monolithic, but that's crazy. ;)