slime

whenever the sun emerges I bolt to the widow throw it open and lift my shirt to stick my belly out in the light. With such small sunlit stints, it’s important to maximize absorption surface
if I keep doing this, by summer I expect to develop a brown belly and very rapid heliocentric reflexes.

I am trying (in a gallant effort of procrastination) to learn about slugs. I don’t like slugs. At all. But I’m trying at least to appreciate them. Them and their hermaphroditic mating habits. Ugh. Slugs. Not Ugh to the hermaphroditisism—power to em for that— just Ugh to the slime.

So far, I’ve learned the word hygroscopic. It means the ability to attract water molecules from the environment. I would like to be more hygroscopic. Hygroscopic: like both forms of slug mucus.

Slugs are just weird. Sometimes (wikipedia tells me) during mating their penises get tangled around eachother. If they cant separate them again, one of the slugs just chews his penis (or the other slugs penis) off. Eeeeee. Apophallation it’s called. Ten points if you can slip it into a conversation today.