Today I did something for the second time in my life. Something that, until three weeks ago, I swore I would never ever do, because it is a seemingly exceptionally stupid thing to do, even though millions of people do it, and even though I am known to do plenty of other seemingly exceptionally stupid things from time to time. Something that I still find exceedingly difficult to do, partly because of the stupidity, but mostly because of anatomy. I put in contacts. Seemingly stupid - no, seemingly retarded - because who, I ask rhetorically, would ever dare to stick foreign objects into one's eyes. And exceedingly difficult because I have tiny little eyes and giant cumbersome fingers, traits handy for moles and moles only. But I went through with it and subsequently found myself snorkeling
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