Do not leave unattended

That's me. Do not leave unattended. My mother gave me a heating element for single serving beverages. It's not something one sees in America because it's a thick metal rod bent into a curved spoon shape through which high current runs in order to heat up the water, while suspended on the edge of a ceramic/heat-proof mug. It's the heating element of a water boiler, without the safety plastic jug. Completely exposed. I have only ONCE picked it up by the metal part, the hot part, while it was plugged in. Today, in a stroke of brilliance, I set it up in my travel mug with the pink plastic bedazzle trim as I always do, then WENT TO TAKE A SHOWER. This heating element is fast. By the time I got out and heard the eager, furious bubbling, half the water had come out. I could not tell whether it came out from the top, or if I managed to breach the vacuum seal on the bottom, causing an irreparable leak. Idiot. Surely I am the reason that warning labels on blow dryers and irons always come with drawings, examples of what not to do, with giant Xs. I've often thought that I resembled the idiot child dropping the toaster in the bathtub.

My Intellectual Property paper is coming along. As in, I've finished the research for it, now I have to shake my head around and come to some sort of conclusion that I can back up with facts. Some novel conclusion. I cannot brashly state Country Y's IP laws do not work because they are lazy, organized-crime-lords, while Country S's IP laws work because they will kill your family if you break the law. No. That is not logical, even if it is mostly true.

Tomorrow, I will put on my second best suit (that is now too big) and deliver a closing argument, prosecuting Little Red Riding Hood for prostitution. Or should I defend her against a prostitution charge? Maybe prosecuting Little Red for prostitution, and the Big Bad Wolf for pimping. Pandering, I believe it's called. Big Bad Wolf as Hollywood Madame, Heidi Fleiss. What devious contortions my mind is coming up with, for the final act!