You joined three months before me, & have seen quite a few members promoted to mod, so what's so different with celegorm?, I was made up to mod within six weeks of joining & I went straight to mod from junior member, but I don't remember you saying anything, one or two mods may have been surprised at the early promotion, which was understandable of course, celegorm's a nice guy & I was one of several who put his name forward.
a bit off topic but @brook, i was just wondering what made you join cf. im glad your here and everything but you dont seem to have much interest in computers. did you just want to be part of the great community?
As you are now a mod, you can upload something from your PC, in User CP, [at the top of this page] click "change avatar", scroll down below the regular ones to where it says browse, click that, & you'll see a list of your areas where you can go & upload a pic or other item, click on the one you want as your avatar, [you may have to downsize it, 60 x 60mm is the max] then click save.