The Real Me

mcarp the hutt.

Sometimes we lose sight of how we appear to other people. Well, at least I do. The person I see in the mirror seems to be a lot more attractive than the person other people see in the flesh.

I was keenly aware of how I appeared when I was a reporter; after all, I saw myself on television all the time. But now, many years later, I don't pay so much attention to it.

So, I was taken somewhat aback when I found this photo of myself on a friend's Facebook page. Even so, I have to accept the reality that this is how I appear to other people, and that the notion I had of my own appearance, and negative as it was, was still somewhat idealized.

Damn – I look like Baby Huey. Well, except that Baby Huey isn't pecking on an iPhone all the time.

I'm a bit thinner now than I was when this picture was taken more than a year ago, but even when I'm at my ideal weight, I'm still kind of a big, hulking mass, and not in a rugged, athletic way.

So, if you've been looking at those tiny thumbnail pics of me and wondering what the rest of me looks like, there it is.