This spring, here at Chez Gauthier, we reorganized and cleared out some old photo albums. We came upon a picture that I would have loved to have used as an author photo at some point. Unfortunately, it was taken about five years before my first short story was published and somewhere in the area of twenty-plus years before my first book was published.I suspect I didn't like this picture at the time it was taken. I often find I now like pictures of myself that I know I disliked years ago. In this case, in addition to looking young, which I appreciate above all else in photos of myself, I think I look booky and thoughtful, as if I'd just come from an author reading, one of those kinds that just go on and on, or a graduate school lit class. Maybe I just got home after sipping a little Chardonnay with some writers.
Those are all things I rarely do, by the way, except for, these days, drinking Chardonnay. So I guess it would be great if in a picture I could look as if I'd just done those things instead of looking as if I'd just watched part of a TV mini-series or read a back issue of Newsweek, something I may have actually been doing in this one.
I actually had a flannel shirt on this morning.
I'm not sure what this second picture means.
They are both great pictures, although I am unsure why you are sitting in a closet! (If it was like my first apartment, my desk was in an actual closet!)
ReplyDeleteI meant to tell you that I was greatly relieved to get my copy of Happy Kid back when students were allowed to return things, although it seems someone snacked on the Mylar cover and I need to replace it.
You will be interested to hear, Karen, that I had a sewing machine in the closet of that second bedroom. I don't know what I was doing sitting in front of an open closet, reading a magazine.
ReplyDeleteI am always delighted to hear about Happy Kid activity.