Things I have learned today

1.) When you're eating a burrito, and you're all by yourself, and the first bite is way, way too hot, spit it out. You're not going to win any macho points by convincing yourself it's "not that bad" and continuing to chew, and no one's going to care about your manners.

1a.) Especially spit it out if there's a lot of melted cheese on the burrito. That shit clings like liquid plasma.

2.) Eating scrape-y foods like cookies when the roof of your mouth looks like bubble wrap is a Bad Plan. It only takes one misplaced walnut chunk to scrape the skin off of one of the blisters.

3.) Relieving the pain of a blister by putting an ice cube on it is a great idea...unless it happens to be on the roof of your mouth, right against the nerve that causes ice cream headaches.

4.) Today is just not my day for petty injuries. I should probably stay away from paper, loose gravel and particularly aggressive furniture...

Things I have learned today

1.) When you're eating a burrito, and you're all by yourself, and the first bite is way, way too hot, spit it out. You're not going to win any macho points by convincing yourself it's "not that bad" and continuing to chew, and no one's going to care about your manners.

1a.) Especially spit it out if there's a lot of melted cheese on the burrito. That shit clings like liquid plasma.

2.) Eating scrape-y foods like cookies when the roof of your mouth looks like bubble wrap is a Bad Plan. It only takes one misplaced walnut chunk to scrape the skin off of one of the blisters.

3.) Relieving the pain of a blister by putting an ice cube on it is a great idea...unless it happens to be on the roof of your mouth, right against the nerve that causes ice cream headaches.

4.) Today is just not my day for petty injuries. I should probably stay away from paper, loose gravel and particularly aggressive furniture...

Well. Howzabout that.

Weird, how stuff you create and put on the internet ends up in the strangest places.

I have no idea where the video's creator came across the picture - for those too lazy to read the original post, Brian and I took it for a photo contest that Patrick Rothfuss held to promote the paperback release of his first novel. So maybe they read his blog. Or perhaps they Googled "sexy librarian" - the friend who found the video tipped me off to that picture appearing in the first row of hits (which is sort of flattering, considering that most of the other results are far more blatant). Or maybe they came across it on Facebook. Who knows?

But hey. If nothing else, being Google-famous is a nice bit of ego boost. Even if I wish there were a link to my blog or something as well - it'd be nice to be known as a writer as well as a hot librarian.

Well. Howzabout that.

Weird, how stuff you create and put on the internet ends up in the strangest places.

I have no idea where the video's creator came across the picture - for those too lazy to read the original post, Brian and I took it for a photo contest that Patrick Rothfuss held to promote the paperback release of his first novel. So maybe they read his blog. Or perhaps they Googled "sexy librarian" - the friend who found the video tipped me off to that picture appearing in the first row of hits (which is sort of flattering, considering that most of the other results are far more blatant). Or maybe they came across it on Facebook. Who knows?

But hey. If nothing else, being Google-famous is a nice bit of ego boost. Even if I wish there were a link to my blog or something as well - it'd be nice to be known as a writer as well as a hot librarian.