look out!

two things...

first of all, why is the theme song to the old spider-man cartoon haunting me?

on monday, cupcakes were brought into school to celebrate greg's and stefanie's birthdays, and some of the cupcakes had spider-man rings on top of them. i got one of the cupcakes with king kong. and despite the allegations of some, it was NOT chewbacca! duh, friends -- chewbacca is BROWN! so anyway, spider-man... sitting next to tom in our last conflicts class, i wrote him a note. the note was this:

spider-man spider-man
does whatever a spider can
spins a web any size
catches thieves just like flies
look out!
here comes the spider-man!

now, everybody loves spider-man. i love spider-man. i can find you at least three instances in my notes for class where i've written "lesson for today: with great power comes great responsibility". how can you not love uber-nerd-qua-superhero peter parker?

but, here's the weird thing... this morning at the crazy mocha in bloomfield, i'm sitting at the table in the back working on my jurisprudence paper, there are three other patrons in the whole joint, NPR is providing the soundtrack, and suddenly the guy who's working behind the counter starts singing...

spider-man spider-man
does whatever a spider can...

wha??? so when the guy walked past my table as he was taking out the trash, i said, "hey, were you singing the spider-man song?" apparently, NPR had played some sort of orchestrated version of the tune earlier in the day, which had successfully lodged the song in his head, hence the singing. huh.

if this song pops up somewhere else in my week, i'll know that something strange is afoot.

but at least i can count on krista's teeth! which leads me to thing the second...

krista and i got cheap chinese food for lunch today, and our fortune cookies yielded much weirdness. mine said, "you cannot love life until you live the life you love." um, does anybody else sense a little circular logic here? so, according to this fortune, i can't love life until i'm living the life i love, eh? shouldn't a couple of words be transposed or something? erm...

but krista's fortune is BY FAR the BEST. FORTUNE. EVER! it was, inexplicably and marvellously:

"Wow! A secret message from your teeth!"

i kid you not. she's got the little piece of fortune cookie paper to prove it.