I’m still alive!

Well, I guess that that comes as no surprise.

Still enjoying this wonderful bout of food poisoning. Trying to work out if I’ll be calling in sick to my exam or going in whilst holding myself tightly in order to make sure that I do not explode all over the place as right now I am really not sure as to how safe it is for me to go anywhere other than the bathroom despite the joys of what I’ve given myself easing up considerable. I still feel dizzy. That is always fun.

However, this is not what this post is about today so I will not spend time going into the extreme detail of what is going on inside me. I’d rather spare everyone a graphic image.

Well, today this post is about things. And stuff. And life. Sometimes life is intense. Sometimes life is in tents.

I am writing right now, but not later, although there will be later moments in which I am writing.

What am I even crapping on about right now?

So I’m sitting here, very slowly studying but I’m not handling it all very well right now.

I need to go outside. I need to get some sun. I need to get some air that is fresh and relax a bit. I need to do things that are as inspiring as they are invigorating.

I need to see the world around me.

I need to water my plants. I need to do my food shopping.

Oh dear. I need to do my food shopping.

I also need to talk more about tongue biters.

Tongue biters are parasitic ispodods that bite the tongues of fish, hence their appropriate non-scientific name.

Interestingly the spell check does not recognise isopod. The spell check thinks that it is iPod. Silly spell check.

Anyway what usually happens is that the tongue biter (Cymothoa exigua) bites the tongue and feeds off of the blood from it which eventually leads to the tongue to atrophy, which in turn leads to the tongue biter becoming a tongue substitute.

I say usually as I don’t know if this is always the case.

Anyway, once this happens the tongue biter continues to feed off either the blood of the host or the mucus.

From what I’ve read, this is the only example of parasitic mutualism that involves the parasite replacing a body part.

I think that it is pretty interesting.

This is part of what I like about the natural world; it’s so weird and fascinating.

There are, of course plenty of other things that I like, but this is just one of many.

Well, I think that there are plenty. I could be wrong.

Either way, I think that at the least this is interesting.

Well, that was a bit of info for all of you out there.

What you choose to do with it is entirely in your hands.

RUN FREE! RUN FREE AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY!

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 08:38:21

This would definitely be one of the better things that I’ve written.

Written at home.