tonight's musings

curses on saunders, who has somehow got me watching hours of “the deadliest catch” on the discovery channel, even tho i don’t have any particular affinity for it. well, actually i have decided that this would be a great profession for me. see, i decided recently that i would like to do something that the world needs, and the last thing that the world needs is more lawyers. now, true, the world probably doesn’t actually need to eat crab. but it sure does like it. and so it needs people to catch the crab. well, i’m not sure if there may be crab farms. but i’m going to guess that the world needs people to catch crab if they are going to eat it. also, i like crab. furthermore, i like cold, i like water, and i would love working with men who said, “call me crazy, maybe i am a little bit.” so i think this would be a great profession. and yes i realize that this is a dreadfully dangerous profession and there is the perpetual risk of death. BUT i think falling into freezing seas, while you’re already in at least phase 1 hypothermia (which seems to be how these men live 4/5 of their lives), would be a pretty good way to go. so that doesn’t really bother me. i think i’m a natural for this job. but the problem is that i figure i won’t be able to break into it b/c i am a girl. and also i learned that most of the smaller boats sell their catch allotment to the larger boats, so there is a scarcity of jobs and there would be no place for me to cut my teeth, so to speak. anyways. it was just a thought.

but all of that is irrelevant to the point this post was supposed to make, which was brought on by this show that i have now been watching for far too long. which is about animals and eating. i suppose that what it boils down to is do animals eat for taste? b/c the guy was given the sea lion in the water a fish and the sea lion was very happy to get it. now do you think that the sea lion thinks that raw fish is tasty (which is fine) or do you think that he just likes getting food w/o having to expend any effort (like college students and free food. for free, i’d take raw fish.) or maybe they just don’t know what else to do when someone offers them food. but lots of animals beg for food even tho they don’t really need it to survive. sometimes i could imagine this being b/c the food is tasty, like with dog treats or even with the little food pellets you give animals at the zoo, b/c those are at least a starch and i equate starches with tastiness, but not raw fish with tastiness. but i am not a sea lion, so i really don’t know. do you see what i’m asking here?