No, actually, it wasn't at all obvious. (I was just effing w/you) ;) If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have been none the wiser. (Apparently, you're an articulate drunk.) :)

In response to "sober as a church girl" - One of my classmates in high school's mom forced her to go to church early Sunday morning after a weekend of HARD (and underaged) partying. She was so drunk / sick / sleepy that she actually had diarrhea and pooped all over herself in church - in WHITE dress pants no less! This embarrassing and disruptive (so I am told) event took place at *the* Baptist church in a gossipy, mostly-Baptist town - so the girl NEVER lived it down.

To this day, when I think of her, I only remember how she crapped on herself at church. I wasn't even there at the time, and I still regret that I missed out on all the excitement. [Unfortunately, I went to the small, not-so-gossipy Catholic Church in town, where people were at least smart enough to get drunk AT church and then go home to poop (they drank wine in mass, and sold shitloads of alcohol at the after-mass bingo)].

On the topic of general 'hippie hygiene', self-grooming based on the standpoint that we are essentially animals and that it 'takes a lot of effort to care', my hippie world is one based on hedonism and therefore entails the joys of cleaning one's self and being clean, being self-conscious not out of self-obsession but out of self love and out of love for others, creating sweet fragrant moments of closeness...

Yes, the beauty industry tries to make us overthink every single self-grooming ritual we have, tries to make us worry about how we look and smell, but in the development of consciousness, I believe self-consciousness is part of the process - a freedom to propel ourselves into the world at our best, providing a clear reflection for those individuals we might like to meet.