Random creatures

[vvvexation]

Somebody over on metaquotes speculated that reincarnation works completely at random--like, you just wind up in whatever body is available at the moment. For some reason, I like that better than the idea of karma. Obviates the need for a purpose or an end or anything.

In completely unrelated news, there's a daddy-long-legs or some very similar sort of spider hanging out in a corner of my bedroom, hunched over a trussed-up bundle that looks for all the world like...another spider. One of the medium-sized, crawly kind. I had no idea different species of spider actually preyed on each other. For some reason I'm obscurely happy; while I don't much care for either kind of spider, I find the spindly ones less threatening somehow and thus am pleased at this one's triumph over one of the scary ones. Then again, if I knew which kind it is that keeps biting me in my sleep, I might have to revise that opinion.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

When my kid sister was an occupational therapist, she once worked with someone who had tissue necrosis on the side of his calf from a brown recluse bite, and it ate so much muscle tissue that he needed to learn to use his leg in its new capacity, all over again.