scruffy

The hospital where I work as a research scientist in a synthetic biology lab is vaccinating all its staff, and excited voices from all sorts of people — scruffy graduate students, put-together receptionists — fill the air.

All the tots are all well scrubbed and smiling, except for one scruffy little guy who’s giving the finger to the camera.

There are photos of what looks like a scruffy Californian kid in a T-shirt, taking a break from skateboarding.

They were greeted by the ever-scruffy director, who can be seen in the picture above snapping a shot on his camera phone.