in my life

As I finish writing up some leftover posts that I'd, um, meant to write, a short interlude about current Israeli TV:

( Cut for easy skimming; Satire, crack, sexism, and yay )

In other news: I've found my mysteriously missing pair of boots!

*hugs brown leather with no heels*

*sneezes*

It is ridiculous the degree to which I've become addicted to salad. I've always loved salad -- homemade, not restaurant-ordered -- and one salad a day at least has been on menu for as long as I can remember, and I always save the salad for last because it's the yummiest part of the meal. And I'm not talking about anything fancy, you know, no special dressings, no fruit, no peppers even, just chopped up cucumber and tomato, locally known as either "Israeli Salad" or, if chopped up really thin, "Arab Salad".

Anyway, I always used to season salad with salt and pepper and olive oil and a little lemon, thinking that you add in the lemon because it's just done that way, not because it has any special flavor or anything. And then last year I suddenly put in more lemon than I was used to, probably a quarter of one, and omg it was delicious and that's how I ate salads all year. And then this year I accidentally squeezed an entire half of a lemon into my salad and it tastes even better, it is divine, and I am embarrassed for having lived this long without realizing it. So now, twice a day -- not more if I can help it because that would be freaky -- I chop up:

1 large tomato
1 large cucumber
a few leaves of lettuce
little bit of onion
seedless olives

and add
1-2 tbs olive oil
1/2 a lemon
pepper (some)
salt (probably too much)

and on the surface it seems like the most boring bland salad imaginable but it is like an EXPLOSION OF FLAVORS in my mouth, so delicious. Sometimes I daydream about this salad in class, okay? I mean, there's a bunch of stuff you can add -- bell peppers and mushrooms and carrots and kohlrabi and cabbage and corn and avocado and seeds and fruits and whatever you have lying around your fridge, obviously, and it'll still be good; just keep the seasoning lemony and salty, and the lettuce/vegetable ratio in favor of the vegetables, and I personally am guaranteed to love it for sure. But this, tomato-cucumber-lettuce-olives-onions, this is the heart.

I... just felt the need to express that.

(Also I have become a huge oliveholic. You don't even want to know. So many olives. I'm sure it's unhealthy*.)

*out of curiosity: who here has ever heard the adage that 1 egg = 7 olives? (eta: I am less interested in whether or not it's true, and more in who else has ever heard of the ratio at all)