i've unknowingly committed genocide

ok so ive been watching my snails lately and they are mating up a storm and their bowl has progressively gotten dirtier, so i clean it. ok but heres the part thats killing me, i just looked up the mating rituals of snails and have learned that they court for hours before mating and cover each other with slimy stuff and then they lay their eggs which will hatch or whatever in 2-4 weeks... so what i thought was snail poop were actually eggs. i have killed the offspring of mega man and optimus prime! i didnt mean to... i thought they were poop. they look like poop. how was i supposed to know they were eggs? neither mega man nor optimus prime told me. well now i know better. snail eggs resemble poop. no going to make that mistake again.

p.s. i have stayed up all night working on a paper and studying for a final. i have gotten 7 hours of sleep within the past 3 nights... i think im going crazy but i dont care. the head rush is totally worth it... hehehe

... and then they made me their chief