Say Cheese!

Tomorrow I have to go and get my yearbook picture taken. Despite the fact that I only had like two days to prepare for this event, I am not too excited. First of all there are these weird "dress" type things that you wear but really they're like a dress type bib thing that only covers the part of you that will be in the picture, so whether I decide to wear my purple tank top or pajama shirt tomorrow, you'll never know unless I tell you. But most importantly it is almost a year before I will look at this picture again. Do you know how much a person changes in a year? Between tomorrow and the end of the school year I could get a haircut or grow an inch. Or even more ridiculously I could actually get tan, yet everyone would always remember me as the short pale girl who needs a haircut.
At the end of the school year everyone will be looking at this picture and linking it with whatever or whoever I am then. Maybe it's not even the physical appearance I'm worried about, but more what I am and what I will be. Currently I have no job, have never traveled outside of the country and have no idea where I am going to college. By the end of the year all of that will have changed but me will still be the girl I am today or the girl I am tomorrow I guess.
Well at least there are the pictures I'm taking a couple of weeks from now. Maybe I'll have a job by then. Why am I taking more pictures? Well, I'm not quite sure. But apparently a bunch of people didn't want to have pictures of themselves in weird dress bib things at their graduation party so instead they paid to have pictures taken by a professional photographer. And now I guess it's sort of a tradition to get senior pictures taken. Luckily for me I get a really great 100% discount because my best friend's dad is the photographer and we're all taking pictures together. It will be fun at least to have pictures taken with all of them. That I'm happy about. I get to go through my senior year and all it's strange traditions with three of the most amazing people I know.
I still don't understand why we take pictures now instead of later but I do want to look good in them. I mean people are going to be looking at these pictures for years! So I should get some sleep before people add "The girl who needs more sleep" to my "Short, pale, girl who needs a haircut."