Mastery

Gregory Moore
10 Mastered Things
1. Knot uniting
2. Hair gelling
3. Grilled cheese making
4. Nose-blowing
5. Deconstructing houses
6. Route 30 driving
7. Pittsburgh Pirate tailgate planning
8. Shoveling snow
9. Smooth talking
10. Taking notes



“How do you get your hair to stay like that all day?”
The simple question my 17 year-old brother asks on a weekly basis. To be honest, I’m just a master at using the smallest amount of gel to achieve the maximum amount of spike. I can honestly say that I’ve only been gelling my hair since I came to college. While I was in high school, I usually had all of my hair buzzed because it was much easier than having to take the extra five minutes out of my sleep cycle to gel my hair.
Also in high school, having a sports practice after school and using gel in your hair did not exactly cooperate for most athletes. They would have to rinse the gel out of their hair before practice and if they didn’t, the gel would get into their eyes and it would burn them.
Once I came into college, and classes didn’t start until at the earliest 10:30AM, I found myself letting my hair grow and thus my skills developed at an advanced rate. Plus, my mother thinks I have “moved beyond” the buzzed hair cut, but I have mixed feelings. Yes, it would be a lot easier to take care of, but in all seriousness my head has probably grown a lot since then and I’m afraid my head is going to resemble a watermelon.