I really do have some irrational fears...I'm happy to pack in my job in a recession to travel by myself around New Zealand and Australia, yet I'm terrified of, amongst other things, giant squid. Which live very, very deep at the bottom of the ocean. Anyway, at the National Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa in Wellington, last week I found myself at one of their temporary exhibitions: Colossal Squid. Which featured a dead giant squid on display. That I was fine with, but the exhibit also featured a 5 minute CGI film about the squid and its life. Which I had to walk out of, basically due to terror. An ANIMATED film. Too scary for me. Shocking, and yet I'll jump out of a plane. Like I said last time, my initial impressions of Wellington
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