Cheese covered girly bits

Okay.
I really do swear that, contrary to recent posting trends, I am seriously on a hiatus.

However, sometimes I do something so ridiculous that it needs to be shared.

So, today, I'm at lunch at the campus pub, celebrating a friend's successful thesis defense. I've ordered a veggie burger with cheese, and when it arrives, the server points at some napkin-wrapped cutlery across the table. I reach for it.

Just as I am going to put my burger together, a guy across the table says, "So, you like cheese, hey?"

I pause. "Yeah, why?"

He laughs.

"No, seriously, " I reply. "I feel like I'm missing something here."

He tells me to look at my shirt.

I have somehow managed to dunk my left breast in the melting cheese on my burger. It appears as though I have an engorged flaky cheddar areola.

Did I mention that I defend my PhD proposal this afternoon?

Yeah.

The past month

Things I've learned over a month without blogging...

Not writing down every spare thought really does make for a lot more free time.

I'm most tempted to break my self-imposed no blogging rule when I've been drinking.

I get a lot fewer emails.

I worry about my first *real* post back, and that I will forget how to write.

I also worry that if I don't write a little update every now and then, I may disappear into a deep dark internet wasteland, along with chat rooms, my old MySpace account and other things that used to be semi-cool.

I miss random people at random times. Out of the blue, I will wonder what one of you is up to.

I need to use the thesaurus a lot more when I do write something. It's like my brain has already stopped remembering the more poetic synonyms.

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I'm still away. I just felt the need to cheat and say hello.