What is really full of surprises, is the massive Larousse French-English dictionary:

“Attention! Elle est mangeuse d’hommes.” = Watch out, she’s a man-eater, or, She eats men for breakfast.

What else is full of surprises, is my bookbag today, which (a) says: “girl reporter” in Japanese (in honor of the book I’m writing about, L’empire des signes, which is Barthes in Japan), and (b) at last check was holding a banana, two cranberry-walnut cookies, a clementine, a bag of Jacques Torres mendiants (these being little chocolate squares, each embedded with an almond, a small piece of strange candied fruit, and a pistachio), and two pudding-flavored marshmallows, these last two items being courtesy of my friend Kat.

Anyway, so but I really was surprised when I looked in my bag and found all these library-friendly snacks, which is funny ’cause it’s not like they just magicked themselves in there. . .or did they???