Poor Karen. She's going to buisness school classes right now, and the group was having a discussion about planning. The teacher asked everyone to give examples of something they're planning right now, and she cheerfully spoke up with "Breeding snakes!"

Everyone gave her a look she described as "Why must you be so weird and always bring up snakes?"

She says to me "I can't help it, I love the snakes!" Poor misunderstood snake lovers... As long as she doesn't tell them we mark down shedding dates on the calendar maybe they won't view us as *total* weirdos.

On a semi-related note, a co-worker of hers saw the 'baby pics' up in her cubical and said she's scared of snakes but she doesn't want to be, and thinks they're beautiful. She asked if she could come over some time to be around them and get over her fear. Well, Falkor, Gomez, and Ma-tsu are certainly good examples of well behaved sweet snakes (she won't be meeting Neptune!) so we gave the okay for her to come over sometime when the snakes aren't digesting so she can be around them, touch them, and we'll see about handling... (I'm slightly overprotective of my scale-babies *Especially* if she's nervous!). Probably in order of size.

So mixed reviews from Karen's peers, lol. I still can't get over her male co-workers getting the shivers over poor sweet innocent Gomez!