I just received another letter from the cook on that industrial fishing vessel off the coast of Alaska. Heres a little snippet:
Nothing exciting happened today except that I realized that I compulsively wash my glasses. Whenever I cook, I get the grease vapors stuck on the inside of my glasses, not the outside. I don’t know how that happens unless it’s the way the air is circulated in the galley by the hood vents. So, I wore a baseball cap down low over my glasses hoping that the visor would stop the accumulation of grease particles on the inside of my glasses. It didn’t help. I would wear goggles, but then everybody would laugh at me, and I’m too self-conscious to accept that.
