I learned two new things!
...but I'm putting them behind a cut because the first one's kinda gross. Summary: I was looking to see if a word meant what I thought it did; discovered that it didn't; and found out something interesting about my own body in the process.
The first is that excrescence is not a synonym for excrement (depending on who you talk to -- I'm sure there are architects that would argue that it is too. Heh.).
The second is that I, like a lot of people in the world, have a Darwin's Tubercle! It's a funny little bump in the outer rim of my left ear, which is a slightly malformed seam between the fourth and fifth hillocks of Hiss. The theory is that once upon a time, the fourth and fifth hillocks of Hiss actually formed a joint and the tops of our ears could flop down over the ear canal and keep junk/bugs out.
And all of this because I'm trying to write smut. (No, it doesn't involve fetishes you can't talk about at the dinner table, I promise. It does, however, involve people who have no idea what they're doing. ARGH.)
The first is that excrescence is not a synonym for excrement (depending on who you talk to -- I'm sure there are architects that would argue that it is too. Heh.).
The second is that I, like a lot of people in the world, have a Darwin's Tubercle! It's a funny little bump in the outer rim of my left ear, which is a slightly malformed seam between the fourth and fifth hillocks of Hiss. The theory is that once upon a time, the fourth and fifth hillocks of Hiss actually formed a joint and the tops of our ears could flop down over the ear canal and keep junk/bugs out.
And all of this because I'm trying to write smut. (No, it doesn't involve fetishes you can't talk about at the dinner table, I promise. It does, however, involve people who have no idea what they're doing. ARGH.)