[brains] face recognition, separation, continued thoughts

It appears that beards seriously screw with my ability to differentiate people from others with beards, and with my ability to recognize those that I have developed some ability to recognize _in_ context, when they are no longer in that context. It also seems to make it far more difficult for me to read a person.

Excepting people who grew beards after I was close to them, I can't think of anyone I'm very close to who has a beard. And even in the 'grew it later' category, I don't think I'm _still_ amazingly close to anyone who did that - but then, I can only think of a single case, and there are other possible reasons for that.

Annoys me that this is true, since it annoys me that there's a category of people who I apparently will not get close to based on something as trivial as a type of facial hair. But... I don't think this has ever not been true, and may be a large part of my dislike of such things.

This was sparked by a reminder of the fact that I was _completely_ unable to figure out _why_ someone knew me (and who I was pretty sure that I knew, as well) a few weekends ago, when I saw them out of context. Felt really bad about it, too! On the plus side, for once him saying his name _did_ help... (since I'm also bad with proper nouns)

[brains] face recognition, separation, continued thoughts

It appears that beards seriously screw with my ability to differentiate people from others with beards, and with my ability to recognize those that I have developed some ability to recognize _in_ context, when they are no longer in that context. It also seems to make it far more difficult for me to read a person.

Excepting people who grew beards after I was close to them, I can't think of anyone I'm very close to who has a beard. And even in the 'grew it later' category, I don't think I'm _still_ amazingly close to anyone who did that - but then, I can only think of a single case, and there are other possible reasons for that.

Annoys me that this is true, since it annoys me that there's a category of people who I apparently will not get close to based on something as trivial as a type of facial hair. But... I don't think this has ever not been true, and may be a large part of my dislike of such things.

This was sparked by a reminder of the fact that I was _completely_ unable to figure out _why_ someone knew me (and who I was pretty sure that I knew, as well) a few weekends ago, when I saw them out of context. Felt really bad about it, too! On the plus side, for once him saying his name _did_ help... (since I'm also bad with proper nouns)

[random]

I am intensely bored today. Possibly related to looking at various travel sites (within the US) and related books (Amazon is evil. I bought nothing, but my wish list got significantly bigger) last night, and some for Australia a bit ago (Swimming with Dolphins! Want!).

I also found myself startling _myself_ when happening to notice myself in the mirror w/no glasses. *sigh* I also see better with contacts vs glasses, as well as not being one for whom glasses are an improvement (some people look _good_ with glasses. I don't look bad, but I look better without them). I really should give more consideration toward eye surgery, even if the terror relating to them fucking up is a big factor.

I seem to be a bit ansty with wanting something to _do_, but I don't have any free weekend days for a while. Perhaps I can convince my visiting friend to do something Sunday... and I need to do laundry and bills!

Hey, at least I have the energy to be bored. Right? And I _am_ doing work...

[random]

I am intensely bored today. Possibly related to looking at various travel sites (within the US) and related books (Amazon is evil. I bought nothing, but my wish list got significantly bigger) last night, and some for Australia a bit ago (Swimming with Dolphins! Want!).

I also found myself startling _myself_ when happening to notice myself in the mirror w/no glasses. *sigh* I also see better with contacts vs glasses, as well as not being one for whom glasses are an improvement (some people look _good_ with glasses. I don't look bad, but I look better without them). I really should give more consideration toward eye surgery, even if the terror relating to them fucking up is a big factor.

I seem to be a bit ansty with wanting something to _do_, but I don't have any free weekend days for a while. Perhaps I can convince my visiting friend to do something Sunday... and I need to do laundry and bills!

Hey, at least I have the energy to be bored. Right? And I _am_ doing work...