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In the trenches

April 13, 2010

While driving home from work today I noticed that the two lines between my eyebrows are becoming trenches. They are often called frown lines because they come along with concentration or worry. My friend told me about Frownies. Frownies are basically ways of taping your face to smooth out face wrinkles while you sleep. As I sit typing this, I have two small adhesive Band-Aids above my eyebrows as an experiment in decreasing the signs of aging. My students often look either much older than their chronological age due to drug use and a hard life, or curiously younger. I think this might be due to the effect of being locked up without exposure to sun, with an absolute regimented routine of daily sleep and nutrition. I hope I’m not going off the deep end here with this theory. Anyway, I think my students would approve of the use of Band-Aids as homemade Frownies.