Today I had my picture taken for my new public transport(PT) student pass. I wasn’t excited about having it taken and I know I’m also very critical about pictures of myself. The benefit of not having it taken for my passport was that I could put a smile on my face. Now my smile-less picture in my passport is absolutely a bad representation of myself, although I do have it on my 2007 PT student pass and my university student pass. Luckily a PT pass is only for one year and my university pass will be useless as soon as I graduate somewhere mid 2008, so I could live with that smile-less face on those passes. Now I had an oppurtunity to have my picture taken with a smile, and would be the first official one since I started my hormone treatment. There were some pictures taken with me on it at my best friends birthday party last saturday, but I haven’t seen them yet. 
It took three flashes to get the picture right, putting my chin a little down, which isn’t allowed on a passport photo, but which is a much more relaxed way to hold my head and my jawbone looks better that way. Most importantly was the smile though, on the third picture taken it all looked good enough for satisfaction. I’d love to show the picture here, but I don’t have a scanning device, that’ll have to happen when I’m at my parents 9 days from now. Honestly though I’m so happy with this picture! Okay, you can see that I still have the problem of facial hair, but truly this is the best picture in years. My hair looks okay, which was a real problem in past pictures, my smile looks good, and I don’t look too pale. If the succes is to ascribe to the effects of my hormone treatment or the woman that took the picture or just the fact that I overslept, I don’t know. If I could give out prizes to the photo’s for the purpose of some kind of identification pass of the past 5 years than this one would absolutely get a gold medal.