Gakubuchi (Frame)

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane, Sherlock Holmes confesses, “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles." I’ve always loved that quote, because I feel it applies to me. I enjoy reading all sorts of things. I wish I could retain the more useful parts of what I’ve read, but more often it’s the odd bits of useless trivia that become stuck in my head and won’t get unstuck. Did you know that women generally a have a higher body temperature than men do? It’s one of the reasons that women tend to make better nurses. Have you ever had someone with ice-cold hands check your blood pressure? It’s also why men often make better sushi chefs. It seems that cold hands are more suited to handling fresh fish. See what I mean? It does me no good to know something like this. All it can do is make me hungry for a tuna roll and pickled ginger.