How to draw a tree shrew:
- Draw mouse.
- HUMAN EARS.

Shannon.
my uncle
-is allergic to chocolate
-is physically incapable of laughter (it comes out as a hiss, like steam escaping a pipe)
-has weird long vampire teeth
-once led a chemical attack on some college students who had bullied his high school chemistry class
-named his bicycle Tom Bombadil
-got hired twice for the same job as himself and his fake identical twin because his boss wouldn’t hire him full time
-is the only member of my family to have shown me open and unconditional support
-is a clean-cut nerd… who used to be a psychedelic Deadhead and follow them around on tour
-enjoys snacking on an exercise formula called “goo”; his favorite flavor is “plain”. Plain goo. He gave me a box of it for Christmas once and it’s as gross as it sounds.
-cannot touch mangos
-teaches meditation seminars at his Buddhist temple
-has begun studying magic
-used to be obsessed with cults, especially Scientology, and would just… spy on their temples
-is so fucking weird
-used to drive a car that he’d covered entirely in plastic lizards, until someone stole it
-is terrified of the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz and still has nightmares about them
-is sending me on a roadtrip to the National Radio Quiet Zone for fun and education
-showed up to a family outing downtown this morning, wearing nylon shorts and expensive leather Oxford formal shoes
-cried himself to sleep as a child because he desperately wanted a pet alligator
-has experimented with god knows how many psychoactive substances…. For Science
-is a literal masochist, as discovered this afternoon, when he told me all about how he’s addicted to the “excruciating pain and unexpected pleasure” of physical therapy
-has feet so long he has to get shoes custom made for him - they have, in the past, been mistaken for clown shoes
-once took his girlfriend on a date to lick the St. Louis Arch, in winter, and later revealed that he only framed it as a date ‘cause he was afraid of going alone in case his tongue got stuck to the metal
-told me that he loved how bananas made his whole throat feel tingly, was surprised to find out that bananas are not supposed to have this effect
-was disappointed that I did not bring a book on demon conjugation to the family reunion, because he wanted to compare it to his own translation
-got banned from going down a slide today because he was dripping wet and had clearly been swimming…. he was just really sweaty from climbing the stairs
-sent me a check but forgot my legal name and put my nickname on it instead (it can’t be deposited and he hasn’t sent another)
this is what he wore to a family outing downtown

me to myself: girl if you actually applied yourself in like….anything you’d be dangerous bitch
self-care is slathering yourself in baby oil and sliding down the 7th lane in your local bowling alley so the mechanical pin setter will pick you up and take you to the forbidden place behind the bowling lanes where you can meet God but only on tuesdays
“If you eat a lot of dark chocolate, you will soon get used to its natural flavor and prefer it over sugary-sweet artificial milk chocolate” sorry but I can’t even consume one (1) Bitterness Tile without crying