i was going to write about how mediterranean i feel eating tomato salad and pita bread for dinner...

and then i was going to write about how little the east coast seems to know about produce, and the fact that i've had to introduce people to artichokes, avacados and kumquats in the past few days...

but then a little brown-and-yellow-mottled spider jumped two feet from my bulletin board to my keyboard and proceeded to march about on said keyboard until i tried to squash it, at which point it lept and apparently became invisible, because i couldn't find it.

and now everything tastes kinda funny, just on principle.