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Today is my third to last day in the U.S. I fly out tomorrow morning for New York, and the next day for Dublin. Wish me luck, if you like.
I got my tattoo yesterday. I'd put up pictures, but it's hard to get good angles with the limited mobility of my left arm. I got the flags of Israel, Ireland, Latvia, and Scotland as a band around my left bicep. They're waving, and look totally rad. The Israeli flag is on the outside, and the Latvian flag on the inside (right by my armpit). It's appropriate that the Latvian one hurt the worst, as relations with that side of the family are commonly (in the words of my artist Illya) "a pain the in the fucking ass."
Apparently I took the whole thing like a champ, as I didn't even come close to crying, and I only said "ow" three times, all of them while he was wiping off blood and ink. He also commented it was quite ambitious to get a full band around the upper arm as a first piece, so I feel really good about the whole thing.
Lacie was certainly proud, especially of the Israeli flag. She didn't want to let me have all the fun, so while she was waiting she got a surface piercing through the top of her wrist. It looks way neater than I expected when she originally described it.
I got my tattoo yesterday. I'd put up pictures, but it's hard to get good angles with the limited mobility of my left arm. I got the flags of Israel, Ireland, Latvia, and Scotland as a band around my left bicep. They're waving, and look totally rad. The Israeli flag is on the outside, and the Latvian flag on the inside (right by my armpit). It's appropriate that the Latvian one hurt the worst, as relations with that side of the family are commonly (in the words of my artist Illya) "a pain the in the fucking ass."
Apparently I took the whole thing like a champ, as I didn't even come close to crying, and I only said "ow" three times, all of them while he was wiping off blood and ink. He also commented it was quite ambitious to get a full band around the upper arm as a first piece, so I feel really good about the whole thing.
Lacie was certainly proud, especially of the Israeli flag. She didn't want to let me have all the fun, so while she was waiting she got a surface piercing through the top of her wrist. It looks way neater than I expected when she originally described it.