Pandas & AIDS...but not together

My friend was so kind today as to call my blog lame, not that she is wrong...but it did remind me that I had a blog and maybe I could write in it.

My first topic is going to be the conference I attending the weekend past. It focused on group relations and dynamics. In other words, the leaders divided us into groups and told us to create a gang....and the Lord of the Flies ensued. I actually liked it, maybe because I am relatively thick skinned (thanks Puddles!) and opinionated. BUT it did impinge on my weekend, as it took up every single day. The scheduling folk didn't seem to care that I do my homework on weekends, so I figured the homework wasn't all that important. If I hadn'ta had to do a presentation on Monday morning I wouldn'ta read nothin'.

The conference did let out early on Sunday and I skipped in the sunshine up to the National Zoo with my Map Maker friend. We had an ice cream cone (side bar: did not know they made a Jack Daniels flavored chocolate ice cream, but if you do happen upon it, it is quite tasty) and saw the baby panda. The panda was, on Sunday afternoon, apparently stuck up a tree...which made for riveting viewing. He basically looked like he was napping 20 ft. above ground. I honestly thought he could not get down. Map Maker relayed a story that the baby panda kept climbing up the tree, much to his trainer's dismay, and consistently gets stuck - on one occasion having to sleep up in the tree all night because he couldn't get down on his own. No wonder panda's are endangered, they are obviously stupid.

Speaking of obviously stupid, I think this is the stupidest man ever and I hope he gets AIDS. When I read this on the metro this morning I became desperately depressed that he once headed South Africa's National AIDS Council and honestly believed "he faced relatively little risk of contracting the virus from vaginal intercourse." He believed that so much that he proceeded to rape a woman he knew had AIDS. So now, not only should he be jailed for rape but he should also get the virus. And South Africa should hire smart people to handle the epidemic in their country.