Plodding

"You're the tortoise and I'm the hare," he said, having landed at the breakfast table and multi-tasking with phone and fork. "I'm all go go go and you're ... I don't know ... " "Plodding," she offered. "You've used "plodding" before." "Plodding," he repeated (feeling some satisfaction with that). "Shuffling," she continued, "or crawling - both of those were popular for a time." He was done paying attention as the texts came in and he'd applied jam to his toast at the preferred level of thickness. "I would go with "patient", "strategic", or maybe even "thorough" myself," she whispered, turning to watch him as she stood at the sink; she took the phone out of her apron pocket to get the camera ready. Strychnine was the most dramatic of all poisons, with the spasms beginning in the face.