i'm staring at the blank page and going guuuh...

I know I'm due for an update of this thing, but contrary to my bowels as of late, my creative juice is not flowing. Faced with this huge blank square, it feels like I'm back in high school again with a 2000-word essay to write on something that I'm not interested in. What do I talk about? About my day? My day was not all that exciting. About my life? My life is shit. Ranting? That's about the only thing I do all day long. The details of my daily decisions (hmmm... should I make a 30 seconds detour to the convenience store to grab today's Metro? nah....) as you can see is completely uninteresting (if it interests you, let me know, i can even tell you things like how i paid for my lunch today using my mastercard and the machine at Thai Island doesn't accept chips so I had to swipe it and sign even though there's a freakin' chip slot!)

So I'm just going to pick whatever and talk about whatever. Call it the blogpost where anything is more interesting then the on-goings of my daily life or musings, and this will be probably the first of many more to come.

Aaaanyhow, let's talk about elephants (first word that popped up in my mind). I don't know what you guys' opinions about elephants are (like if you had any beef with them before, like one of them stole your girlfriend or something), but I *personally* think if a zoo doesn't have elephants then it's just a petting farm or a circus, wait no - circuses need elephants too, so there - it'd be just an animal gathering ground, or a very very bad zoo. Elephants are big goofy animals, and awesome looking, not to mention there is never any evil elephant in cartoon or other depictions (look at Stampy! he was just grumpy but so nice to Bart). They can't jump but are immensely powerful, extremely smart ...to the point they have death and mourning rituals. Completely exotic, too - which is what zoos are all about, anyway. No one goes there to see them pigeons. Of course there are other essential elements of the zoo like the tigers, lions, lemurs, pandas, bears, giraffes --- but if I buy tickets to a zoo, and it doesn't have elephants and it's not clear that they wouldn't have them on the get go, I'd a bit peeved (I'm looking at you Central Park Zoo NYC).

Yay for elephants!