In preparation for Wednesday's meeting and the passing-in of much paperwork, I got my photo taken today (Monday, since I've begun this right before midnight but it has technically posted as Tuesday) at the ID and Privileges office on campus. ($8 will get a current student more passport-sized color photos than you ever imagined necessary, it appears.) I need a total of 5, but they only print them in batches of two, so that equals 6--the five needed plus one to spare, in case I ever want to look back on that moment at 10:30 central time this morning when they took my picture.
The photo is remarkably bad, in part because of my own lame attempts to be serious. With passport photos, they tell you not to smile (allegedly it distorts your facial features? something like that), and since I wasn't exactly sure for what these copies of me would be put to use (visas? something else official?) I took a similarly stolid, no-smile stance. Which just looks kind of foolish when combined with my hair, which was remarkably askew, probably still in protest against the annoying 9:45 a.m. fire drill we had this morning thanks to some jackanape in the dorm deciding to pull the fire alarm. (I was already awake when it went off, but it was less than pleasant outside.) A housemate of mine, however, who went to Athens last spring quarter believes the photos might be necessary for ID to get into ruins (we are going to Pompei, after all, at least so far as I know), which are strictly access-controlled in many countries. If so, it probably wouldn't have hurt to smile. At least they know I'm serious?
The rest of the paperwork is filled out; I just have to put it all together and get ready to see what is next in the process. I suspect flight-booking will be the (fun but absurdly expensive) next step, but I'm not going to put money on that or anything. We will see, we will see.
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