terminally clueless

Today I learned that while we EIs get sick from chemicals and then get things like cancer, other people skip the EI part and just get things like cancer. It never occurred to me to look at it that way, even though the concept of carcinogenic chemicals is not remotely new to me, and heaven knows I don't tolerate them. For example, any scientist out there knows that benzene is carcinogenic, and since I got sick, I learned that it's in car exhaust and perfume, so I should have put this together myself instead of reading it somewhere and doing that forehead slap thing.

In other news, even if you have slime tubes on your bike, you should still avoid running over dried prickly pear parts.