[Well, if you don't point it out, than neither will he. Being a rodent will just simply have to be the big white elephant in the room.]

No. Before arriving here, I was at my home, meditating. [The fact that 'his home' was a decommissioned subway station connected to the sewers of New York and shared with four anthropomorphic turtles and a teenage girl could be heavily glossed over.] After arriving here, it is difficult to know where to begin in a search for information.

[None of that was information that was worth withholding, after all.] Allow me to introduce myself- You may call me Splinter.