"Just looking at your face makes mine hurt."
So I survived Monday and now I'm halfway through Tuesday. School starts again tonight. Please join me in issuing a great big BLECH to grad school.
Today has been a pretty quiet day so far, compared to yesterday.
However, in keeping with the animal theme (started yesterday with the Monkey), I now give you "Tales of the Pachyderm: It's not Just Humans who are Fat"
Pachyderm won't pace to keep off pounds
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- So far, it's only the trainers at the Alaska Zoo who seem to be breaking into a sweat.
They've so far made little progress trying to coax Maggie, a somewhat cantankerous African elephant, onto the world's first treadmill for a pachyderm.
For two months, Maggie's trainers have used her favorite treats -- watermelon, apples, carrots, peanuts in the shell, banana slices and sweet potatoes -- to entice the 8,000-pound elephant into exercising on the $100,000 piece of equipment.
Maggie arrived at the zoo in 1983 as a calf when her herd in Kruger National Park in South Africa was culled. She has been alone since December 14, 1997, when the zoo's other elephant died at age 33 of a foot infection.
The treadmill is part of a $1 million program the zoo launched two years ago to improve Maggie's life after deciding to keep Alaska's only elephant instead of placing her at another facility, perhaps in a warmer climate, with more elephants.
The treadmill, made with the help of a company that designs heavy-duty conveyor systems used in mining, was delivered to the zoo in September. Lampi said they originally hoped to have Maggie taking walks on it by the end of November.
P.S. The title has no relation to the post.
P.P.S. I MAY OR MAY NOT have uttered this phrase whilst camping this weekend. ALLEGEDLY.
Today has been a pretty quiet day so far, compared to yesterday.
However, in keeping with the animal theme (started yesterday with the Monkey), I now give you "Tales of the Pachyderm: It's not Just Humans who are Fat"
Pachyderm won't pace to keep off pounds
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- So far, it's only the trainers at the Alaska Zoo who seem to be breaking into a sweat.
They've so far made little progress trying to coax Maggie, a somewhat cantankerous African elephant, onto the world's first treadmill for a pachyderm.
For two months, Maggie's trainers have used her favorite treats -- watermelon, apples, carrots, peanuts in the shell, banana slices and sweet potatoes -- to entice the 8,000-pound elephant into exercising on the $100,000 piece of equipment.
Maggie arrived at the zoo in 1983 as a calf when her herd in Kruger National Park in South Africa was culled. She has been alone since December 14, 1997, when the zoo's other elephant died at age 33 of a foot infection.
The treadmill is part of a $1 million program the zoo launched two years ago to improve Maggie's life after deciding to keep Alaska's only elephant instead of placing her at another facility, perhaps in a warmer climate, with more elephants.
The treadmill, made with the help of a company that designs heavy-duty conveyor systems used in mining, was delivered to the zoo in September. Lampi said they originally hoped to have Maggie taking walks on it by the end of November.
P.S. The title has no relation to the post.
P.P.S. I MAY OR MAY NOT have uttered this phrase whilst camping this weekend. ALLEGEDLY.
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