Today's topic du jour is body odor, I guess - as a gay man,

[LWolf]

17. Yep.

I teach middle school. My room is on the top level of a building with no air conditioning and a whole wall of west-facing, floor-to-ceiling windows that get all the direct afternoon sun. Our schedule gives all of my students morning PE, the early lunch, and we're in classes the rest of the day after lunch.

I've been told it's a blessing that I don't know what the room smells like in the late afternoon with 30-something sweaty, hormonal 8th graders packed in there.

I sometimes miss the smells I used to love, but not often unless someone is pointing them out to me. People do that. They know I can't smell, but they are constantly telling me all about it. Kind of like asking a blind person "Oh, isn't that a beautiful sunset!"

There are many smells, on the other hand, that I DON'T miss.