November 1, 2005

• Educators are always telling kids to have goals.  Now that I've seen Oasis and Coldplay live, I've been motivationless for about a month.

  
  

  I've been browsing Wikipedia a lot recently while putting off school work.  Somehow I started looking at animals.  I love going to the zoo, and the only television programs I ever bother watching are history, religious, and nature documentaries...ocean or land, doesn't matter.  The ones where it's only a guy narrating.  Yeah, the ones they rarely show now.  Discovery is too busy showing "Myth Busters" and stupid motorcycle/car modding shows.  Animal Planet is too busy showing that show with A.C. Slater checking out "America's greatest pets" or some garbage.  National Geographic is the best choice, but hasn't yet proved itself trustworthy.

  
  

  Anyway, I don't know how it came up...Emmy is in zoology, and I was asking her about the animals she had studying so far.  Mostly boring stuff - worms, sea sponges, clams.  Somewhere I brought up the order Artiodactyla.  That is, even-toed ungulates.  That is, hooved animals aside from horses, donkeys, zebras, and rhinos.  Camels are cool.  I "am" one - it's our school mascot.  I like the two-humped ones.  Then it hit me.

  
  

  Giraffes!

  
  

  I will ride a giraffe someday.

  
  

  How 'bout dem apples?

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