Of all my recent years’ varied adventures, the most memorable ten seconds might well have been when my housemate tossed me an egg and I caught it in my mouth. The hour was 9am. The egg was raw. The music was high. It was our first try. It looked a little like this.

I suppose one could look for a deeper meaning here, some lesson on spontanaeity or the pursuit of the comic absurd or the value of attempting things that seem impossible, but no: this one’s just an egg, and it was awesome. The satisfying ka-chunk of the egg clinking off my teeth and lodging unbroken in my mouth like a heavy-duty mechanism locking into place stayed with me all day.

Thanks to Irian D’Andrea for the grade-A toss and to Olive Eilbott for both issuing the challenge and capturing it on video.