i have been sick for exactly one month today, so i thought i'd blog about something unrelated to illness: eels. it is incredibly hard to find information about eels because not much is known about them. it isn't as if people haven't tried studying them, either. they just don't want us to know their secrets. i have only ever found one book written about eels: Consider the Eel by Richard Schweid. i bought it on super clearance discount at Hasting's. apparently no one in killeen appreciates how rare and wondrous eel knowledge is. i started reading the book last night and it made me nostalgic for the days when i used to keep eels. i had a 55 gallon tank containing two freshwater snowflake eels who both eventually escaped the tank and drowned on my floor while i was sleeping. i vowed never to keep eels again until i had learned something more about their keeping, not realizing that precious little information exists. i may never have eels again. even the book i found isn't about freshwater pet eels, like i had, but freshwater food eels like the kind in sushi. eels are also used in porn, especially sick sick japanese porn. those dirty bastards. also, in the movie The Cell, Jennifer Lopez stands in a bucket full of eels in one scene. those are the kind of eels i used to keep as pets. maybe someday i can have a lab filled with tanks and study eels and write my own book on their proper care and biology, but until that day i have my memories of my eels and how they used to swim: sinuous bodies undulating weightlessly like ribbons in the air.
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