The other night, I put on some water for boiling (no, I don’t only cook pasta) and sat down to blog. About 90 minutes later, I walk into the kitchen and find that all the water’s evaporated and the pot itself is now cooking. I take it off the bright hot burner (the mark of which is now permanently embedded in the defunct pot), and hear it popping and cracking angrily as it cools down.

Is blog-induced property damage the first sign of addiction? What are you guys doing to me?

Granted, this isn’t as bad as the time I was racing home to catch the X-Files and had a slight fenderbender. It was an episode I’d already seen, and I was taping it…