I don’t know why, but whenever I have to make a picture for an ID card, I look like a goofy nerd. It’s always the same routine: all exhausted from running around the campus trying to get my paperwork together, I sit in front of one of these digital cameras attached to registration computers, they take a picture and it looks like I don’t know how to use a comb. The last picture from the ID Card of the Catholic University of Leuven was so terrible that I did not dare to show them to anybody except the library stuff. This time it’s not as bad, but almost. I don’t know how I managed, but before walking to the Card Office, I shaved myself and cut myself slightly on the cheek, and now the picture features a beautiful red spot on my right cheek - looks like marmalade. (more…)