text() in Processing

Question

I'm playing around with Processing to see how everything works, but when dealing with the text() method, it seems to be having load time issues.

The code I have simple loads a PNG image onto the screen, followed by 3 4 letters words of size 24. When I leave only the image loading code in there, the application starts straight away, but when I put the text() code in, it takes approximately 3-4 seconds before it loads.

The above was done straight from Processing application, but I'm actually developing it inside a JFrame, so for the first 4 seconds, I actually see a blank JFrame which is quite ugly.

My question to you guys is whether any of you are aware of an issue with text(), or if there is a logical reason as to why it takes so long to load up.

--Running Java 7 on a Quad core machine

Here's the relevant code

PImage backgroundImage;
PFont font;

/**
 * PApplet method - performs all setup actions
 */
public void setup(){
    this.size( 1400, 900);

    backgroundImage = loadImage( "EG_dark.png" );
    backgroundImage.resize( width, height );
    this.background(backgroundImage);

     font = createFont("AmericanTypewriter", 24);
     textFont(font);

}

/**
 * PApplet method - All drawing occurs here
 */
public void draw(){
    if(backgroundImage.width != width || backgroundImage.height != height){
        backgroundImage.resize( width, height );
    }

    this.background(backgroundImage);

    fill(0, 102, 153);
    text("word", 15, 30); 
    fill(0, 102, 153);
    text("word", 15, 60);
    fill(0, 102, 153);
    text("word", 15, 90);
}