Hey, Look at Me!
May. 13th, 2002 04:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphSo, I got some of the old pictures digitized and put on a CD. (Maybe more about that later.) These are snapshots taken in Los Angeles in the summer of 1986, just before I left. Among them was one I had forgotten. When I first bought my old (now defunct) Olympus point-and-shoot camera, I decided to test the timer-delay feature on the most likely available subject, which turned out to be me!
I suppose everybody knows that I've never posted a picture of myself here, and don't even have a user icon with my mug on it. Partly it is because I have no scanner or digital camera, but it is also because there are very few pictures of me in existence. I always have thought of that as the wrong end of the camera for me to be on. But now, here is this newly digitized picture which is not entirely horrid, and, well, I guess I just don't have any more excuses.
Keep in mind that this picture is almost sixteen years old, and I am now far, far better looking! (heh, think thy're buying it?) At any rate, thanks to Picture Trail,your long wait is over. But, first, to pleasurably extend the delicious anticipation you are undoubtedly experiencing, here is an enjoyable poll.
[Poll #33495]
And now...
BEHOLD!
REJECTOMORPH
also known varously as Joe, Joey, J.W., Jaydub, J-dawg, "Hey, you!" "Hello, sailor!" "May I see some ID, please?" and "Duuuude!"
As I said, the picture dates to 1986, so you have to use a bit of imagination to have an idea of how I look now. The beard is still there, though not as dark, the hair is shorter, starts a bit farther back, and is sometimes a bit spikey (I've discovered mousse,) a noticible bit of grey is on my temples, and there are a few lines here and there.
Oh, yeah. I wear glasses. Actually, I wore them even then (since I was about eleven, in fact,) but I didn't wear them when I took the picture because I was using the flash and I don't like the way flash reflects off of glasses. (hey, if they bought the bit about me being better looking now, they'll buy this too,)
So, was it worth the wait?
I suppose everybody knows that I've never posted a picture of myself here, and don't even have a user icon with my mug on it. Partly it is because I have no scanner or digital camera, but it is also because there are very few pictures of me in existence. I always have thought of that as the wrong end of the camera for me to be on. But now, here is this newly digitized picture which is not entirely horrid, and, well, I guess I just don't have any more excuses.
Keep in mind that this picture is almost sixteen years old, and I am now far, far better looking! (heh, think thy're buying it?) At any rate, thanks to Picture Trail,your long wait is over. But, first, to pleasurably extend the delicious anticipation you are undoubtedly experiencing, here is an enjoyable poll.
[Poll #33495]
And now...
also known varously as Joe, Joey, J.W., Jaydub, J-dawg, "Hey, you!" "Hello, sailor!" "May I see some ID, please?" and "Duuuude!"
As I said, the picture dates to 1986, so you have to use a bit of imagination to have an idea of how I look now. The beard is still there, though not as dark, the hair is shorter, starts a bit farther back, and is sometimes a bit spikey (I've discovered mousse,) a noticible bit of grey is on my temples, and there are a few lines here and there.
Oh, yeah. I wear glasses. Actually, I wore them even then (since I was about eleven, in fact,) but I didn't wear them when I took the picture because I was using the flash and I don't like the way flash reflects off of glasses. (hey, if they bought the bit about me being better looking now, they'll buy this too,)
So, was it worth the wait?
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yeah
Date: 2002-05-13 08:34 pm (UTC)in an unrelated note my mother posted something i wrote. she didn't really post it...she asked me to write something abou 9-11 months ago for the church newsletter. i did it. i hated it, but i did for her, unknowing that she would write an introduction. a horrible introduction, that made me sad that she's my mom in a way. (i'm being dramatic, but it was hard.) my pastor back home sent it to the conference journal, and now when i search my name on google, there is something there that is actually me. not a linda weal from maryland. but me. it is page 25 from a 28 page pdf, so i figure it will remain unfound, but it worries me. it is worse somehow than my picture. i am a little neurotic, exuse me.
anyway, i didn't tell you before that you are almost exactly how i pictured you. you have been my live journal friend since my first month on this thing, my second to be precise; and i almost had you pegged, visually. i had doubts, but i pictured you much as you are. i'm a little shocked that you broke your no visual protocol, but in a way i am glad. it's hard being less anonymous, but you must know that it is reassuring for people like me. related in such a weird fringe way.
also, unrelated, you write beautifully. i'm very jealous of your thoughts on nature. do you ever read richard brautigan?