in childrens stories, such lessons are learned for life, but in the real world they usually need reinforcing every few years.

high school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: don't wear them. contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead i just squint, figuring that if something is more than six feet away i'll just deal with it when i get there. it might have been different in the eighteenth century when people wore nearly identical wire rims, but today's wide selection means that in choosing a pair of frames you're forced to declare yourself a certain type of person, or, in my case, a certain type of insect.

im not tired but everyone else is.
and finally, in copying: