My glasses are too wide for my face, so they look a little dumb, because I like having peripheral vision, and good-looking glasses wouldn't fix my face anyway... 😅
And that's an odd place to hyphenate "picturesque."
Gave up on trying to cook? I've had more trouble with getting boiled eggs right than anything else I've cooked... well, partly because I repeatedly tried to soft-boil them. :P
Middle school is definitely not too late to worry about not being macho! I'm older than the World Wide Web and just added 3.5cm (13%) to my upper arm's circumference over 2 months because I felt like it. 😆 But I get to look like this forever anyway.
I've had several Japanese girls (in Japan) tell me I can call them by their first name.
Was it a normal attitude for foreigners, or was it a signal? The world may never know! :P