I would have been happy to have gone to my grave without knowing of the existence of the "Giant African Land Snail," but it's too late now.

My innocence has been robbed, and my protective shield of ignorance has been pierced. That it happened while I was eating lunch doesn't make this any easier on me.

But, I'm not going down alone. Oh, no. I'm taking you with me.

Behold the CNN article by which these nasty things were introduced into my life.

[this is certainly a nice, positive way to begin my second year of blogging]