Just now, Jen Graves came over to my desk and said, "L. West, you like gross things, right? Look, I planed half my finger off with a knife!" Then she tried to show me her finger. Then I threw my computer at her.

So, the general answer to that question is YES. I do like gross things. I think that pretty much everything is interesting, and I'm not going to stop myself from looking at something that might be interesting just because it is also gross. Sometimes gross things are the most interesting things of all! However, THE ONE THING THAT I CANNOT ABIDE IS HUMAN FLESH THAT HAS BEEN SLICED AND DICED WITH A KNIFE. It's not a blood thing—it's a knife thing specifically. I think that perhaps I was a mirepoix in a past life.

My mom is a nurse, and she always says that of all the bodily fluids she has to handle (blood, urine, saliva, vomit, pus, phlegm, bile, etc.), the grossest one is definitely phlegm. Phlegm! I would not have guessed that. All of this got me thinking about all the different kinds of gross things that there are. Let's talk about it! Because grooooooooooooooss!!!