In the past, I've written about my great mental prowess concerning math and science, which just may be unsurpassed in terms of illusions of grandeur. I am a math-and-science-genius legend only in my own mind.
I do remember a few things from my high school science classes, where I sat in the back of the room and did more inking on my deck tennis shoes' blue lines, than listening to the teacher. What I do remember is that when a movable object meets an immovable object, the movable object - depending on its speed - can take a beating......which is exactly what happened to my hard head this morning when I was coming up, out of a sailboat's interior, and my head didn't realize that there was a hatch/door immediately above it. I should have known better because I know that sailboat's have these doors that you must absolutely duck for, but I didn't. To add further insult to injury, I was really heaving my body heavily upward with my arms, on the rails attached to the steps, because the steps are a little far apart and my legs are a little short. The consequence was a resounding collision between the top of my head and the metal rim of a hatch/door.
Nothing too serious resulted except for a pounding headache and a little temporary case of the dizzies, which some would say is routine with me, anyway. My eyes' pupils are working just fine so no worries there. I just have a bruised ego and knot on the top of my thick skull. People have told me before that I am thick-skulled, but today I was glad to have that trait.
Perhaps the lesson learned, here, is not necessarily to pay attention in science class, but rather more simple in nature.
Duck.
Ancora imparo
