Yes, you heard. Photo shoots. OK, there's been a photo shoot, and there's another one on Thursday. Neither of them are glamorous or count as real photo shoots.
Check out my new profile picture. Yes, that's me, smiling coquettishly at someone sitting on your right. On Saturday my family all had our photos taken, separately and together, at the request of my dad. Up until now we've only ever had pictures of us all looking a bit tipsy at Christmas, with party hats on, but now we have proper professional photos to put on the wall.
Getting my picture taken is not my ideal way to spend an afternoon, as I've explained before on this blog. Point a camera at me and I either grin like a moron or start awkwardly looking for the nearest exit. It's a credit to the photographer we used that only about 20% of the images feature my special trademark awkward facial expression: one eye closed, the other half open.
Then the day after tomorrow I've got to pose for some photos for a magazine I sometimes work on. They needed someone desperately and my boss emailed me saying "You will never work here again if you don't do it". So you might say she charmed me into it.
Now seems as good a time as any to point you to AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. You've probably seen it before, but it bears looking at again. Just look at this lovely portrait, brimming with the fun and affection of family life:
It in no way reminds me of my relationship with my parents.
2 readers just couldn't let me have the last word:
You look ver nice. I dare my mother would like something similar of me. She will have to settle with the very hungover graduation picture of me for the time being. And no, I don't know why I got very drunk the night before graduating. Foolish boy.
Good to see you posting finally... I like the new photo of you... very cool. So photos of you have an eye half closed and the other fully closed...
are you Thom Yorke?
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