Let's get this party started!

Alright my people, I've successfully arrived at work and have begun to steal precious time away from important projects just to be with you. That's called committment.

Last night I made myself dinner. A delicious pasta comprised of ziti, three cheese tomato sauce, fresh spinach and garlic. After pouring myself a glass of rich yet smooth red wine I sat down to my personal feast. As I finished my second bowl I felt a distinct crunch on my palate that simply didn't match up with any of the afore mentioned ingredients.

There was a wasp in my food. He (I say he because the little guy was obviously a young waspling striving to escape his mundane surroundings and find a life that held more excitement and challenge) had somehow managed to get into my bag of spinach. I was now done eating.

Which brings me to my real point. Kudos to Upton Sinclar's The Jungle and American food production facilities. Yes I found an insect in my food. Yes it was surprising and slightly off-putting. But it has happened once in my 23 years of life. Not to bad. Will I be a little more careful next time I eat - assuredly so. But I will not stop eating nor buying prepackaged food. If this schedule holds fast I should have 3 such encounters in my lifetime. And really, the bugs we find in food are probably just trying to join the other insects having a party in your stomach. It's been said that we swallow eight spiders a year on average while sleeping.

I wonder what it's like to live in a stomach? Probably pretty cool.