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Slightly unsettled...
I'm a little off-kilter anyway, from being slightly ill (the exhaustion has gone, but the congestion is arriving), not being at work on Friday and being at work on Saturday. I'm reading a book that was recommended to me, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why, which was recommended to me although I can't remember the circumstances. It's good, but it makes me read about 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and stuff like that.
And then I end up watching (and taping) a documentary on sharks in Mauritius who hang out in these undersea pits where the water is turblent* which unsettles me even more because I have this deep-seated COMPLETELY irrational fear of the undersea abyss, so shots of divers under the sea have the potential to freak me out in certain cases.** (I taped it because some of the shots of the undersea pits were absolutely gorgeous and I wanted to have screenshots for potential future painting purposes.)
And the show on after it was a show about a guy who takes various dangerous journeys, and this time he was driving down one of the ice highways in northern Canada, 100 miles on a frozen river and 18 miles on a frozen sea, and OF COURSE he was banging on about how there was nothing but a sheet of ice between his truck and the bottom of the sea, and how quickly he'd die if it broke and he fell in, which freaked me out even more, so I started flipping through channels to find something more soothing.
And hey, there's an episode of Ghostly Encounters on and ghost stories? Not freaky at all. I can deal with ghost stories.*** I turn to that channel, and I see a woman's head against a black background and she's talking about her experience. And I know that this show tends to interview people against a black background, so I'm not expecting anything odd until she says "And then he stabbed me, and he stabbed me, and he stabbed me..." and I finally figure out it's an ad for a true-crime show, not the ghost-stories show. *headdesk* Yeah, I like watching shows about forensics, but ones that tend to feature survivors talking about their attacks kinda give me the willies. :D
So I resorted to a stupid SciFi Channel show that's about hunting for the Malaysian orang pendek**** to calm down. :/
Ooh, I forgot I have Boston cream pie in the fridge! I think this calls for that!
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* Protection from larger sharks, and the turbulence oxygenates the water.
** Such as when they're testing out the turbulence in areas of the pits and the narrator is banging on about how dangerous it is, and you see the currents sucking them around.
*** I HAVE MY PRIORITIES.
**** Exept they insist on calling it "Bigfoot." No! Malaysians have a PERFECTLY GOOD NAME for their own supernatural bipedal hairy creature! Don't call it Bigfoot! And, ya know, when you're attempting to do field biology type things and have night-vision cameras set up? Don't walk around and FREAK EACH OTHER OUT and disturb all the night creatures! STAY IN ONE PLACE, DIPSHITS!
And then I end up watching (and taping) a documentary on sharks in Mauritius who hang out in these undersea pits where the water is turblent* which unsettles me even more because I have this deep-seated COMPLETELY irrational fear of the undersea abyss, so shots of divers under the sea have the potential to freak me out in certain cases.** (I taped it because some of the shots of the undersea pits were absolutely gorgeous and I wanted to have screenshots for potential future painting purposes.)
And the show on after it was a show about a guy who takes various dangerous journeys, and this time he was driving down one of the ice highways in northern Canada, 100 miles on a frozen river and 18 miles on a frozen sea, and OF COURSE he was banging on about how there was nothing but a sheet of ice between his truck and the bottom of the sea, and how quickly he'd die if it broke and he fell in, which freaked me out even more, so I started flipping through channels to find something more soothing.
And hey, there's an episode of Ghostly Encounters on and ghost stories? Not freaky at all. I can deal with ghost stories.*** I turn to that channel, and I see a woman's head against a black background and she's talking about her experience. And I know that this show tends to interview people against a black background, so I'm not expecting anything odd until she says "And then he stabbed me, and he stabbed me, and he stabbed me..." and I finally figure out it's an ad for a true-crime show, not the ghost-stories show. *headdesk* Yeah, I like watching shows about forensics, but ones that tend to feature survivors talking about their attacks kinda give me the willies. :D
So I resorted to a stupid SciFi Channel show that's about hunting for the Malaysian orang pendek**** to calm down. :/
Ooh, I forgot I have Boston cream pie in the fridge! I think this calls for that!
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* Protection from larger sharks, and the turbulence oxygenates the water.
** Such as when they're testing out the turbulence in areas of the pits and the narrator is banging on about how dangerous it is, and you see the currents sucking them around.
*** I HAVE MY PRIORITIES.
**** Exept they insist on calling it "Bigfoot." No! Malaysians have a PERFECTLY GOOD NAME for their own supernatural bipedal hairy creature! Don't call it Bigfoot! And, ya know, when you're attempting to do field biology type things and have night-vision cameras set up? Don't walk around and FREAK EACH OTHER OUT and disturb all the night creatures! STAY IN ONE PLACE, DIPSHITS!
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And yeah I don't get shoving american monster names on other creatures like the 'bigfoot' thing.
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But the dive master that was showing the shark biologist the pits he'd found was cool - he knows the area well enough that he even knows some of the individual fish and they know him. The dude was PETTING A MORAY EEL. And IT WAS LETTING HIM. It LIKED IT.
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...that is so freaky.
By which I of course mean awesome.
But freaky.
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The eel was acting just like a cat, and letting the guy stroke it. XD
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I actually just stumbled across video on YouTube of a guy feeding and petting a similarly friendly giant moray, which could serve as a textbook illustration of "it's all fun and games until somebody loses an
eyethumb". Amongst the many cautionary lessons it conveys, "don't get giant eels accustomed to chowing down on foodstuffs similar in size, shape and color to your fingers" would have to be high on the list.no subject
scary, really scary...but not quite as scary as THE ABYSS. I'm completely creeped out now.
I'm just going to go back to watching 'Primeval' (a neat series, nothing to do with the crappy movie by the same name) on BBC America.
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And as for the ocean thing -- I kind of know what you mean. I love the water, I want to get my scuba diving certification sometime in the next year or so, but I hate hate hate swimming in murky water. It's the lack of visibility -- if you can't see anything until it's right on top of you, there's nothing you can do about it.
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