Everyday I find myself full of wonder. Pondering is something I do quite a lot, I suppose pondering is probably my favourite word as well... except maybe smorgasboard. Maybe it's the reason I consistently lack the motivation to perform normal, everyday tasks like keeping the house clean or doing my homework. When you ponder on things such as the immensity of the universe or the beginning of life, what use is a tidy room in the grand scheme of things? I suppose, in Darwinian terms, I'm trying to make excuses for a part of myself that I don't particularly like. I don't like being 'lazy', but liking yourself is necessary for an optimum chance of reproduction, so making an excuse in your head, even if you don't really believe it, is ingrained in human nature.
Maybe trying to ponder evolution and the size of the universe is an odd way of starting the first paragraph of your first post on your first ever blog, but honestly, it's what I usually think about. That's what blogs are for right? Maybe I've been misinformed...
Anyway, most of the people that will (hopefully) read this will know me pretty well. To quote one of the many broadway musicals that I have no interest in learning anything about, 'I am what I am'. Or, to quote Ronseal, 'It does exactly what it says on the tin', well metaphorically speaking considering I am not a tin and I don't usually have anything written on me. On second thought, maybe thats not the best quote considering I'd be referring to myself in the third person as an 'It' and Ronseal have probably register trademarked that slogan. Not that I'm going to use it in coalition with any kind of product that I'm going to be mass producing for sale to the general public... I should probably move on.
I've often been described by friends, teachers and family alike as being 'absent minded'. Unless I'm truly engrossed in a subject, I'll probably end up daydreaming...
The mysterious and wondrous 'tripod fish'
Sorry, there I go again (hilarious I know...). That's a picture of a tripod fish if you are interested. Actually I don't care whether you are or not because I'm going to tell you about the tripod fish anyway. It's a medium sized, deep sea fish that, to conserve energy usually lost from swimming, evolved so it could move along the ocean floor on elongated pelvic and caudal (tail) fins. Pretty awesome, no?
See, that's another good thing about writing a blog, I can say what the hell I like. Most people I talk to hate me talking about animals, and as a budding zoologist, I talk about them a fair bit. They don't tell me why but I have come to the conclusion that it's because I usually change the conversation completely away from the original topic. As you can see, I do this a lot. Variety is the spice of life though, so I will continue to interject fascinating zoologically based facts into conversations of all kinds. Sorry friends.
I don't know how long blogs are supposed to be, but I reckon that's about all I can be bothered to write at the moment. Instinctively, people reading this will automatically zoom on the tripod fish and read the bit about that, then probably leave. That's fine though, as the tripod fish is cool enough to warrant the majority of views on any blog.
I'll love you and leave you then. A feature of this blog will be that I'm going to put a song at the end of each entry to complement the thoughtfully crafted artistic elements of the piece. As you can hopefully tell I'm being sarcastic, but I'm still going to post a song at the end and you better f*cking listen.
Sigur Ros - 'I can't spell the song name'
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