End-of-the-month distraction!

One week ago I started my bookstore job. It's been marvelous so far, and I wish I could relate to you all the cool stuff I've learned, but (a) there's far too much to tell and (b) the handbook warns us against disclosing store procedures and policy. So until my blog posts have worked their way through both Corporate and my lawyer, I'm going to be pretty mum about my job. I will try to keep my faithful readers occupied, however, starting with this picture of a cat with a Far Side mug:



If there's anything the Internet needed, it's more pictures of cats.

Still here

Yes, I'm still alive. There hasn't been much to report at the zoo since the mad rush of a la Carte (oh, you didn't hear about that? My bad). In the future I'll try to report on the madcap hijinks that go down in the fall and winter, all in preparation for that brilliant three-act zoo play I'll write (no animals will be in the play, and in the end the message will be that humans are the real animals). Samuel Beckett mixed with David Mamet, anyone?

Once again on the subject of animals

Is this going to turn into a blog about the zoo? Or about the animal kingdom? Who knows, these types of things just evolve on their own.

Last week I finished a fascinating book that I recommend to all those reading this blog. It's called "Monster of God" by David Quammen, and it deals with humanity's relationship with big, man-eating creatures. There's enough history and travelogue and zoology in there to appeal to a lot of tastes.