Changes in routine that I like. Change is a good thing and so far I'm beginning to detect a pattern that the amount of time measured in ~2 years has been my threshold for anything. It had better not be a curse as well. I am in a house-hunting situation at the moment, trying to find a new place to stay for the next year. In doing so, I don't think I've ever spoken to so many new faces within a week before, in and out of school. Calling homes wondering if they'll be willing to adopt me as a new housemate..
Today was Day #5 in the lab and I've been fortunate to see some amazing creatures, mostly dead. Yesterday while sifting through a handful of sand, I came across something nut-shaped and pale brown in color. It was actually a dead sea heart/sea almond that when alive, burrows into the sand for food and protection. My initial thought was along the lines of "damn, how did this mangrove seed get here?!"..which was actually a very bad guess. A sea heart is also known as an irregular urchin that's about the size of an acorn. Its mouth is located on the underside of the body and so food is scraped off the sand surface as it grazes. I don't know whether its due to death or its frozen state that caused its spines to be brittle and coarse. But I wasn't stung and that was all that mattered.
The girl working in front of me, who is also sifting through seagrass but for fauna, found a 5 mm pycnogonid (sea spider) under the microscope. I was unfamiliar with the term and I kept thinking that it was a baby fish trapped in the seagrass. Another bad guess. Turned out to be a tiny sea spider with all of its legs intact and attached. I was amazed..like shit now we have to worry about spiders in the sea??
...been driven by coffee lately. I've stopped the Tea phase that I had proudly maintained for 6 weeks a while back. Well, didn't have to wait for two years to end it. Green tea will always be there at the back of the cupboard but as of yet, nothing delivers a good kick in the morning like the campus ice coffee.
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And I bet you will worry more and more about sea creatures every time you discover more things in the lab lol
do mama a favor by making up the lost 5kg will you?
5 kg gained back the next day..
haha Sendy, no I don't really worry about them.. I think the extinction rate for sea creatures are higher now than before because of the impacts we're causing. Esp for those long-lived, slow reproduction animals. But as for the spider I would be more worried for my safety in the water.
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