The sacrifices I make for my professional organizations

I'm missing it to attend today's ISTE Board meeting: the Eugene Celebration Parade.

Why does this feel like a sacrifice? Because the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropods - or SLUGs - are marching in the parade. Excuse me - participating, not marching, since slugs being monopods can't march.

It may have been my one and only chance to see this group in action. Rats. My kind of people.

Glorious Gastropause (aka Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant) snorts at the notion of order: "The celebration is about being out of step." Thomas Boyd The Register-Guard ""Slugs do not march," said Slug Queen Inspira Gastropodium. "Slugs have one foot; it's physically impossible. They slither, they slime, and they crawl on their bellies, but they do not march."