charmed, i'm sure

Although I have yet to write a weblog entry about my recent LASIK surgery, readers who know about it have asked whether the surgery is going to cause me to lose either of my coveted statuses: (1) the People magazine award for "The Most Unphotogenic Man Alive" and (2) the distinction that I've been told has been given to me by the graduate students here, of "the faculty member most in need of Extreme Makeover." Below is the first photo of me to come into my possession in which my glasses are gone. Note that it was taken at a friend's Saturday barbecue, where I am, as I am often at barbecues, sitting inside reading a book on mathematics: