well, if Stephanopoulos didn't think i was a crackhead before, he probably does now.
yesterday morning i was boiling some water to make spaghetti, and the heat was on for like 10 minutes yet nothing seemed to be happening. wtf? so i lift the pot off the stove, and the fucking water suddently EXPLODES, scalding my hand and sending the pot crashing to the floor. again, wtf?
i'm no scientist, obviously (hell, i'm barely a functional adult) but i made an attempt at coming up with what i'm sure is a thoroughly DUMB thermodynamic explanation for what could have caused my water to explode, and it involved the fact that my apartment is SO DAMN HOT. My theory had to do with the heat / molecular activity levels outside the pot being similar to those inside the pot, hence no escaping energy / bubbles, etc. blah blah blah.
so armed with my brilliant theory, i go around the corner to our local convenience store where this cute Korean girl named Jin works. she seems to get a kick out of it when i share with her stories of my misadventures, and she's studying to be a scientist or something, so i launched into my exploding water tale / theory.
so of course i'm like a nanosecond into this kind of involved and dumb story, and who walks in but ABC news dude extrordinairre himself.
the tiny handful of people that read this page regularly may recall that George Stephanopoulos lives nearby me here in Georgetown. we don't know eachother personally, but we run into each other fairly regularly. i think he thinks of me as 'that weird guy from the neighborhood.'
anyway, i generally try (probably unsuccessfully) to make a good impression when i'm around the dude, since we're sort of in the same profession (yeah, right), but any such efforts have been rendered folly now after this episode. i was having trouble finding a way of suddenly wrapping up my story once he entered, and Jin kept urging my to carry on with it. so i had to tell my whole weird story with GS standing right next to me waiting to check out, tapping his foot and probably thinking, 'hurry up pothead, i've got a WORLD LEADER to interview.' the fact that i was wearing an Exploited t-shirt and was buying two six-packs of bud lite probably didn't do anything to boost my professional image either.
oh well. (Jin said my theory was not likely correct and that i probably just had the stove heat set too low. in hindsight, her's does sound like a much more reasonable explanation. duh.)
yesterday morning i was boiling some water to make spaghetti, and the heat was on for like 10 minutes yet nothing seemed to be happening. wtf? so i lift the pot off the stove, and the fucking water suddently EXPLODES, scalding my hand and sending the pot crashing to the floor. again, wtf?
i'm no scientist, obviously (hell, i'm barely a functional adult) but i made an attempt at coming up with what i'm sure is a thoroughly DUMB thermodynamic explanation for what could have caused my water to explode, and it involved the fact that my apartment is SO DAMN HOT. My theory had to do with the heat / molecular activity levels outside the pot being similar to those inside the pot, hence no escaping energy / bubbles, etc. blah blah blah.
so armed with my brilliant theory, i go around the corner to our local convenience store where this cute Korean girl named Jin works. she seems to get a kick out of it when i share with her stories of my misadventures, and she's studying to be a scientist or something, so i launched into my exploding water tale / theory.
so of course i'm like a nanosecond into this kind of involved and dumb story, and who walks in but ABC news dude extrordinairre himself.
the tiny handful of people that read this page regularly may recall that George Stephanopoulos lives nearby me here in Georgetown. we don't know eachother personally, but we run into each other fairly regularly. i think he thinks of me as 'that weird guy from the neighborhood.'
anyway, i generally try (probably unsuccessfully) to make a good impression when i'm around the dude, since we're sort of in the same profession (yeah, right), but any such efforts have been rendered folly now after this episode. i was having trouble finding a way of suddenly wrapping up my story once he entered, and Jin kept urging my to carry on with it. so i had to tell my whole weird story with GS standing right next to me waiting to check out, tapping his foot and probably thinking, 'hurry up pothead, i've got a WORLD LEADER to interview.' the fact that i was wearing an Exploited t-shirt and was buying two six-packs of bud lite probably didn't do anything to boost my professional image either.
oh well. (Jin said my theory was not likely correct and that i probably just had the stove heat set too low. in hindsight, her's does sound like a much more reasonable explanation. duh.)
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-Betty