swimming with sharks...

you know those dreams that haunt you all day long? the ones that follow you around and mess up your thoughts long after they've ended? i had one last night. i blame it on this program i watched on the discovery channel at carson's house last saturday while waiting for the ND/PSU game to start.* the show was about these great white sharks off the coast of seal island in africa that breach while feeding. apparently this phenomenon doesn't happen in other places. see the picture for more fun.

anyway, the program might have gotten me all choked up at one point because there was a little seal that got away from a shark attack and the researchers on the boat pulled him on board and took him to safe, shallow waters. the little guy was gonna be okay, but he had a huge chunk taken out of his side and he was a bloody mess. i didn't like this at all.

so my dreaming brain concocted this ridiculous scenario last night where my brother was attempting to film breaching great white sharks and dolphins and walruses and seals that were all hanging out in the shallow water beyond the seawall in my hometown. and he was doing this with an underwater camera, at night, and in a canoe that looked like it was made of some sort of screen or net.

we're driving along the seawall and we get out of the car to set up for this little documentary excursion. there are huge dolphins swimming right up to us. there are also seals with huge chunks taken out of their sides -- escapees from shark attacks. my brother insists on getting in the water with his camera. i'm terrified by this, because you can see sharks' dorsal fins breaking the surface all over the place. but it hardly seems like being in the water is any less safe than in the canoe, because the canoe's walls keep bending like paper.

and that's about it. nothing really happens, it's just scary as all hell -- it's nightswimming with sharks and a videocamera. here i am, many hours after the dream ended, and i'm still creeped out.




*yes. i have yet to blog about notre dame football. i'll get to that in a minute.