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Thursday, November 11, 2004

Maybe I Look It, But I Have No Intention Of Acting It.

I recently had to go in for a new drivers license. The State of California lets you register by mail twice, then they like to see that you do actually still exist. I was sad that I had to go, not because the DMV is such an awful place...OK, yes it is, but that's not why I was sad. I loved my old drivers license picture. I looked pretty good in it. I wasn't smiling crooked. I looked thin. I actually didn't mind showing it off to people.

A week before my appointment at the DMV I got a really bad haircut. A day before my appointment I got a really big zit on my chin. My timing is impeccable.

I just got my new license in the mail, and while I had prepared for the worse, the photo actually isn't that bad. I look a little surprised, but I think that's because I was in and out of the DMV in only 15 minutes. I've had better shots taken, but I can live with it.

I made one mistake, however. I learned that there is one thing you should never do: hold your new picture up next to your old one. That's when you learn what twelve years looks like. Wow. I see me every day, so I never noticed. I'll hang on to the old one and compare in another twelve years. And hopefully the shock of it then won't kill me.

And no, I will not scan and post them, so don't even ask.

05:53 PM PST (link)