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Well as you all know, I fail at life in general. So let me tell you all about another failure that occurred yesterday. My suite mate was making tea using the water from the hot water boiler and she used up all of the water. Of course I didn't want the boiler to explode, so I unplugged it and brought it to the sink (if you leave it on without water in it, it reboils, pressure increases and boom exploded water boiler). When I opened the top of the hot water boiler and looked inside I noticed that there were things floating around the bottom. It was calcified. Actually this has been happening for a while now but we chose not to do anything about it because we're lazy people. That's when I decided that someone should clean out the the boiler. I guess that someone is me.

I swirled the water around trying to get every last piece of calcified junk out of the bottom and I then proceeded to dump it out. That's when my hand slipped. I mean I did dump out all of the hot water... onto my arm that is. It hurt like childbirth. Okay, I don't know what child birth feels like... let me think of another analogy. It hurt like a dentist drilling into your exposed cavity without using anything to numb the area. The worst part of this was the fact that we don't have any ice in the dorms so I had to do with a makeshift ice pack: two cans of coke. It worked for a while until the coke wasn't cold anymore. Good thing there's a stash in the fridge.

I was trying to think up other remedies that I could implement when my genius of a friend told me to use toothpaste because it makes the cooling last longer. Sounds reasonable enough to me, I mean, that's what you're supposed to do to your pimples to decrease redness. So of course I reach for the toothpaste and put it on my arm. It wasn't on my arm for long when the same genius sent me this link:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Should_you_put_toothpaste_on_your_burn

And there I was. Sitting with toothpaste on my arm like an idiot. On the plus side, my arm smelled minty for a while (I went back to using the coke cans though).

The moral of this story? Don't swirl a hot water boiler around if you're not ready for the consequences and don't take medical advice from self acclaimed medical practitioners majoring in English and History (I kid :] if you told me to burn myself I would probably still do it <3).>

Well there goes another failure in the sad comedy that we call my life, I know you guys enjoy these.

use ice packs & tap dance <3