I haven't blogged in over a week, and I have excellent pretty good reasons for that lapse. 1. After my post on SPEAKing Out, I felt a bit raw emotionally and was too drained to really think of anything else to say for a while. 2. Even though there were some highly interesting blog-worthy things that happened last week. 3. Such as the fact that I went with my family to our neighborhood cookout, sat near a petting zoo, and watched in absolute horror as a goat kept trying to CLIMB OVER THE FENCE. 4. No doubt he heard the siren call of his Zombie Goat brethren and was attempting to join them. 5. Or he fancied the chicken sandwich on my plate. 6. Shockingly enough, he wasn't the most disturbing animal in the menagerie. 7. There was an emo llama. Which was more amusing than disturbing. 8. But worse than the Goat With Marauding Tendencies, the Emo Llama, the pig, the sheep, and the deceptively cute little bunnies, was the duck. Not actual petting zoo duck. Se