12.17.2002

When you look at yourself now, can you actually see the effects of time on your face?

I can. To me, my face doesn't look the same as it did the year before, and it looks significantly different than it did two years ago. The frequency of the occurence of changes in my face seems to be accelerating. I thought the changes would occur much more gradually... that my metamorphosis into an old woman would be a long and smoothly transitional process.

I'm starting to see a mid-late 20-year-old in the mirror and in pictures. Maybe I could pass for a 24-year-old, but not any younger... No more babyfat on my face, and I don't feel youthfully cute anymore.

Guys go from cute to handsome to distinguished. But what about women?