At The Zoo

We went to the Zoo last Wednesday- apparently it was "bring you kid to zoo" day as well as independence day.  There were a lot of very adorable babies. :)

There were also monkeys :)

And more little kids...

 

Bonding with their parents...

 

And rhinos! (Well, only one)

And a guy who looked like Jermaine?

 And a doodle-y kid?

The little kids threw things at me...  but man, look at how cute he is!

 

The elephant was... yawning?  Srsly?  I have no idea, but isn't that a freaky mouth?

 

There was also so adult child/parent bonding :D

They even had a little play area for the kids.

 Hell, even the sheepies had little chillin's.

 

They also had some bears- which I'd legititmately seen really up close before, but they had, along with Black, a Grizzly, and a European Brown Bear, which I'd never seen before.

And of the parents of a cute child held her up and above the bears, and she got all upset...

I particularly liked the big cats- but it was hard to photograph them, because there were like two fences between us.

 

The wolf was a bit easier.

There were some other photographers at the zoo as well...

I had such camera envy of him!

(For a slightly larger group of photos, with hippos and baboons and more babies: 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2032527&id=1312740066&l=5e091c0961 )

not having an emotional break down

This whole thing I'm doing right now is terribly stressful. I work for ten hours a day (and there's an hour of commute in there too), spend an hour each studying US History, Literature, and Bulgarian, and, if I can, going to the gym at least three times a week, and some time, magically, I write essays for college applications.

It's terrible.

However, the real problem is that I simply don't have any friends any more. That sounds like an exaggeration, but most people I spent time with in high school are at college out of state, and the ones who are here, well, I'm not interested in those parties where you drink beer out of red solo cups, and dance awkwardly to bad music with people you don't know.

Maybe that's just me.

I do see Blackbird sometimes, he just moved into town though, so it's on a "every other weekend maybe" schedule.

I need to stop being emo about this.

But it's really hard and the weekends are the worst.

I have too much time to manage it efficiently and I do things like this- waste of time, right? Or play with pictures I took in Sofia on Photoshop.

Like this, which is of my brother and sister in law at their wedding.  I like it as a silhouette.

In Bulgarian the word for wedding is svedba.  And if you are married, as a woman, you are "husbanded" (omujena) and as a man, you are wifed!  (jenen)

I really should download a cyrillic thing, but eh.  I don't want to right now.

Anyway, I'm going to go study Politics and Society in the 1930s.