fruit flies

Our apartment seems to have come about a fruit fly problem. I made the salsa/jar/funnel thing that you talked about on the phone this morning (a jar with salsa at the bottom and a paper funnel on top--supposedly the flies are too stupid to figure out how to get OUT of the jar) and they're flying around it like crazy! I would guess there are at least 20 in the vicinity of the jar. Anyway, the flies are also apparently too stupid to get IN. I've decided to try to be as patient as possible and wait at least another hour. There are 4-5 flies inside the jar and the rest are hanging out on the outside of the paper. Do you think they'll go in anytime soon?

I already cleaned the kitchen today, and cleaned out my fish's bowl; now I just need to clean my own room and do some reading for class. The problem is that I would rather walk down to the public library and check out books about knitting. I think I need to either read or clean before I let myself go there!

Anyway... today I have to get ready to go to Illinois so that I can leave as soon as work is over tomorrow!

Wish me and the fruit flies the best. :-)