another reason i'm not a very healthy eater: short-term enthusiasms. i'll suddenly become obsessed with citrus fruit, or frozen pretzels, or taquitos, or imported swiss cheese melted on french bread in the toaster oven, and i will eat almost nothing but until the craze wanes. when i go to visit my parents, my mother often says, like, 'oh, i bought fruit roll-ups for you , do you still like those?' and, like, not only do i not still like those, i only liked them for about half an hour at the time. but i liked them so strongly, apparently, that the memory remains, ten or twenty years later.

i used to blame moms for this, and feel upset that she didn't know me very well and whatnot. this is entirely unfair, considering that i sometimes, like, buy something at the grocery without considering that i'm not really too into it lately. examples that litter my kitchen as we speak: organic instant mashed potatoes, arak, iced-tea-and-lemonade mix.

(fruit roll-ups are definitely just an example--i liked those for a minute, probably mainly becuase i'm a sort of early adopter type. but they're vile. even thinking of 'em now kinda disgusts me. and i'm confident that moms was never thrilled to buy me that crap.)  ¶ 4:29 PM