Hair!

I am a woman of particular tastes. No, not particular. Peculiar. There we go. I find beautiful things in and about everyone. My boyfriend in the 8th grade had full lips-soup coolers, to my friends-and dark circles under his eyes but I adored the mess out of him. So much so that I actually pursued him since the 5th grade before he finally came to his senses in the 8th grade.

But this isn't going to be an ex-boyfriend tell-all. I can't afford the lawsuits.

The latest source of my affection goes toward the intelligent, informative Dr. Sanjay Gupta and his amazing head of hair. I first laid eyes on his amazing hair follicles while perusing Anderson Cooper's website (another extremely beautiful man...he gets a post later). Dr. Gupta was discussing something or another but all I could concentrate on was his head. Something was drawing me in and I couldn't figure out what it was. My eyes then shifted to his hair, which was perfectly sculpted and shiny and just looked...so...silky. I thought to myself, "his hair looks sooooo nice." Then I said to Halbastram, "Come look at Dr. Gupta's hair. Doesn't it look amazing??"

Halbastram rolled his eyes. "My hair looks better."

I mentioned that I'd like to put the shoe on the other foot and ask to touch his hair. This is a reference to all of the people I encountered in college who, when I had a blowout afro, wanted to touch my hair. What they thought it might feel like, I have no clue. But I indulged them. My biggest hair fan was my freshman year roommate. She was always the first to see the afro and as a result always got first dibs on touching it. I never complained, since she always had a cheese platter readily available in the mini fridge, courtesy of her parents back in Wisconsin.

So I want to know what it's like to touch someone's hair. What's the sensation like? I imagine that touching Dr. Gupta's hair is like putting on a warm shirt right out of the dryer.

Or maybe it just feels like hair.

Either way, I very much find his hair nice to look at and hope that he keeps up the good work.