i don't think i've ever seen a mango seed before, i thought as i cut it open. it was one of the mangos that Jaakko left today, since he's going back to Finland. he left a whole bunch of stuff for the second floor, including tea, oatmeal, and four mangos placed in the yellow doggie dish he ate his oatmeal in. (i guess he didn't want the dish, either.) jaakko is one of the most thoughtful people i know.

all the food i got when i was little was all prepared for me. i didn't understand the cooking process, nor was i terribly interested in it. it took me years to figure out that the 菠菜 that I ate at home was the same as the spinach that Popeye had on TV, and probably several more years before I knew what spinach looked like before it was cooked. The first time I cooked spinach, I was amazed at how it shrunk into that familiar spinach shape i was used to. I suppose I still am.