gratuitous picture of myself (for real, this time)

[edenfalling]

For anyone who was wondering what I look like: two self-portraits, taken this evening on my back porch. The first one faces south toward the mulberry tree; the second faces north toward Downstairs Neighbor S's garage. Normally I’d be wearing black or silver earrings, but I wore white ones today to go with the red shirt in honor of the 4th of July. :-)

(As I say in my profile, I have “short brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, a tendency to flush heavily for no apparent reason, and an overall terribly average appearance." I suspect these photos also fall into the long list of ones that don’t manage to capture my smile without making me look like an idiot. Ah well, such is life.)





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In other real life news, I did not actually get back to working on the "Secrets" epilogue. Instead, I walked into town with the intention of buying a BLT from Jimmy Johns (a local cheap sandwich outlet), but somehow ended up buying a loaf of sourdough and a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone at Collegetown Bagels instead. Whoops! (I blame snacky's ice cream deathmatch. Totally not my fault.) Then I took a nap when I got home, because fuck summer. No season needs to be over 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Ever. There is no acceptable excuse.

My feet are slightly blistered since I wore sandals for the walk and I have to break my feet in anew every year, but eh, whatever. I have to get that done at some point. It might as well be now, especially since I have tomorrow off from work as well.

Comments

[rthstewart]

You are a lovely person and those are great photos!

[edenfalling]

Thank you. *blushes, scuffs toes*

You should see the five photo attempts that I didn't post! I am not anywhere near as bad as my Aunt Cara (who adopts a rictus grin the moment she knows she's being photographed) or my mom (who tends to look terribly pained), but I share their tendency to look best in candid photos that I don't know are being taken. I think it is a Culmer woman genetic trait, along with our shared facial structure. *wry* (In contrast, Vicky and my dad are both annoyingly photogenic.)

[redwolf]

Cute!

My old malamute lacked the photogenic gene. Gorgeous dog, but I only have a couple of good photos of her; all the rest she looked drunk or deranged. Weirdly, a friend's wife is exactly the same; beautiful woman, but she leans more towards the special needs end of the scale in photos.

Plus... OMG! Mulberry tree! Am jealous. I love mulberries.

[edenfalling]

Some people just do not photograph well. Interesting to hear that applies to dogs, too!

I mostly think of the tree as a nuisance -- it grows far more berries than it can support, so vast numbers of them fall, immature, onto my porch and rot there unless I sweep them off daily -- but maybe this year I will try picking and doing something with the berries once they're ripe. *ponders*

[branchandroot]

Aww, cute! I know what you mean about trying to get a halfway decent angle that doesn't make one look mildly crazed. *sighs*

(Also, I must take a moment purely to envy you your teeth.)

BLT sounds delicious, right now. I think I even have bacon. Perhaps I shall do something about this.

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

I cannot claim credit for the teeth; they just grew that way. My lower teeth, on the other hand, are not nearly as pretty. I had braces for them, which temporarily pulled them apart enough for my dentist to realize the reason I kept getting weird stabbing pains in my left lower canine was because it had no enamel down one side -- it had been jammed too tightly against the neighboring tooth to ever grow any. I got a filling for that, of course. I then failed to wear my retainer because it had vicious sharp edges and my orthodontist never believed me and thus never rounded them down (*shakes retroactive fist of rage at the sexist, patronizing dickhead*) and now my lower teeth are exactly as squished and snaggled as they ever were, only this time it's my right lower canine that is most displaced from where it ought to be. *sigh*

BLTs are delicious. True facts. :-)

[akatsuki210.livejournal.com]

I like your glasses!

And if you're concerned about privacy, I think there's a way to lock individual posts so that only the people on your f-list can see them even if your journal as a whole is public.

[edenfalling]

Thanks! I try to get this general style -- rectangular lenses and gold/brown metal frames -- every few years when I have to get a new prescription. They are pretty strong, as you can tell by the refraction.

I'm not too worried about privacy -- I just like the way a cut tag means people have to actively click to see the photos. Like I said, it's a vague gesture. :-)