The Picture

[stoutfellow]

I do not drive. I do not have a driver's license. In the last years of the late century, this began to be a problem, as airport security measures slowly tightened; my annual visit to my family in California began to be a bit more difficult. At last, late in 2001, I faced reality: I was going to have to get a state ID card.

I therefore paid a visit to the Illinois DMV website to determine what documentation I was going to need, and on a sunny but cool November day I set out. I had washed my hair and trimmed my beard, so as to Look Good for the Camera. It's about a mile from my house to the nearest DMV office, but it was a nice day and the walk was little more than invigorating. At the office, I filled out the form and handed in the documentation. Only then did I find that I didn't have my social security card in my wallet. The clerk agreed to wait while I went back for it.

So I jogged back home (and it didn't seem quite so cool) and began searching. It wasn't in my old wallet that Murphy had chewed up several years earlier. Chest of drawers. Strongbox. Desk. Kitchen. No sign of the card. I found one of those letters Social Security sends you every three months or so, and hurried back. (It definitely wasn't so cool now.) The clerk accepted the letter, and we completed the procedure.

I no longer Looked Good for the Camera.

And that is the story of The Picture. I am, at least, facing the camera. Those persons (who shall remain nameless, save that one of them styles herself after a small creature native to the planet Barrayar) who have been petitioning for such a view, be satisfied. Okay?

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm GLAD you were facing the camera this time! I wondered if you had a pirate's patch on the other side or something fascinating that had to be hidden in your last picture . Totally cute picture! No doubt you have to wear some form of student-repellent such as Vicks Vaporub to classes...

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

If I don't post it, remind me to scan my DL picture.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

So here it is!

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Also a very nice picture, but you look a little, um, stern and stoic. Which country's firing squad were you facing here?

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Also a very nice picture, but you look a little, um, stern and stoic. Which country's firing squad were you facing here? <d,g,r> I won't even bother showing my driver's license picture. I'm one of the least photogenic persons in the world; it's very rare for me to have both eyes open at the same time and my mouth closed or at least in a pleasant expression. Needless to say, my DL pictures always look like I was picked up during my latest stupid criminal activity <g>.