Okay, bear with me a second here.

*applies for job as dental receptionist*

For some reason, possibly related to either hopeless vanity or the need to prove that I am actually a human being, not lines of text on a screen or a spambot who knows an inordinate amount about Weiss Kreuz, I have been wanting to get hold of a photograph of myself for the sole purpose of posting it online.

This evening, after paying to check my e-mail in an internet cafe - and I have no idea why I did this when I was about half an freakin' hour from home and I didn't have any new messages anyway - I found myself with about 28 minutes' worth of paid time left and damn-all to do with it. Which was when I decided to see if I could get the webcam this thing had installed as standard on it working and if so, if I could use it to take pictures and not just streaming video of me sitting there like an idiot looking really embarrassed and smiling and blinking a lot.

(Because I'm sure that's just what Youtube needs. Another video of some generic white girl staring into a webcam talking rubbish. Besides, I don't want to know what my voice sounds like outside my head. I know it's teddibly, teddibly English, my deah, so let's leave it at that.)

If anyone out there really wants to know what a quietladybirman looks like, this is about as answered as it's gonna get for now.



( three more very samey images beneath cut. )

That would be rather like a generic Englishwoman of twenty... something.

Yes, that is all my own hair.

... you know, I think I look like something you might see behind a reception desk, actually. (I need to start wearing my hair down more often, but first I need to get it cut, which means I need a job.) As is probably blatantly obvious, Photoshop was not abused in any way in the making of these images. Honestly, considering I was sat in the middle of a web cafe, I'm just glad the light wasn't totally godawful.

So now you know I exist.