Zoo Day

Yesterday we discovered that it was my birthday (who had known?). Discovering it in a timely fashion, however, we made plans for when k@ got back from her interview at the ACLU (-how'd it go? the first questions of our tongues, mine and her sister's, the latter visiting us from California. She is an elementary teacher and this summer she has off. The answer: alright. Malaise a la Jimmy C, the C is for Mr. car-TEAR). We made plans to visit the Woodland Park Zoo, k@ being a fan of zoos generally, my being indifferent to depressed by them, and all of us figuring we should mark this in some manner. We spent maybe 4 hours there, passing and repassing the concrete walks that hid one section of captive animals from another. I was thankful that the Orang-Utans had a large enclosure. Nothing makes me more sad than to see Forest People in a tiny little concrete block like at the Portland Zoo. Well, nothing maybe more than seeing People People in a similar situation.



We saw this dude, too, a Malaysian tapir, the size of a pony. His dick was huge and when he stood up he seemed to be using it to sweep the area under his body, like an elephant might do with their trunk. It was ludicrous and incredible. I admired his dexterity and we moved on.
At home i drank two beers while making pizza. k@ made brownies. We watched Revenge of the Nerds, leading me to the conclusion that the category "nerds" includes: people with glasses, the gross, musicians, gay black men, people with hats, all Asians. Black men whose sexual orientation remains unmarked seemed to be nerd allies.

At the end of last week k@ and i went to Neptune and against a tiny audience of two other teams, k@ and i blew the competition out of the water with our knowledge of the first four seasons of The Simpsons. We won this:


Successful work on my summer paper is minimal. Today i am going to a group interview at Safeway to make some side scratch to support my love of beer and handmade yeasty dough. I await the return of the school year when i feel less like i've fallen into some hipster limbo.