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Wednesday, February 25, 2004

I love a fresh hair cut. I look good today. I almost wish it was Picture Day! Like they have at the schools. Picture Day was so fun as a child. A few days before, the school would pin the announcement and order forms to our shirts. (My teacher pinned notes to us where we couldn't reach them to ensure they actually got home with us...) On the actual day the whole school would line up outside the gym. It was so exciting. On your turn you'd be posed up against that fake outdoors background and told to smile. Class wouldn't begin till everyone was done! I remember one year, I had to be in the third or fourth grade, I was so sick on picture day. It was terribly upsetting to my small brain. My mother had bought me the coolest outfit for the occasion. It was a black and beige mock neck sweater and bell bottom jeans. I thought of those jeans as "big kid pants". (It was the seventies, but the late seventies, I'm not that old!) I remember my biggest concern abut staying home was that I wouldn't get to wear that new outfit. She let me. So there I was on the couch, with a fever and a throw-up bucket, looking all fancy. Boy, I was kinda gay as a kid...