The pitfalls and risks of eating fresh peppers

Recovering from eating a fresh Habanero chili pepper
which I'd confused with a sweet pepper and sliced up in my salad. (What? They do look the same. Granted the Habanero is a lot smaller but still, same color.)

My lips still burn 35 minutes later. My tongue burned for 10-15 minutes.
And by burn - I mean BURN! Luckily I had an apple and Siggis Yogurt with me - to help, plus plenty of cold water. I threw out the salad. These are considered the second hottest pepper in the world. I've drank the equivalent of 8 glasses of water.

But hey, on the bright side? It woke me up and killed my appetite.

Read more news about Osma Bin Laden assaination on Huffington Post.
Apparently they varified that it was him via his sister's DNA, then they
buried him at sea per Islamic rituals. They offered to give him to the Saudias but they turned them down. (Or it was Syria, can't remember which.)
Pakistan is furious that the US went in there and took out the compound without telling Pakistan about it first. (ie. You invaded our country without permission? How dare you!) Saw the President's speech on it last night live...hence the reason I feel so dead this morning. Well that, and the fact that I stupidly stayed up to write the entry on both it and Game of Thrones.
Really need to stop doing that.

Day is dragging workwise. Not helped by feeling sleepy. Also it cloudy and overcast. Not a good walking day.

Sigh - lips still burning, but tongue fine. Apparently just touching the skin with your lips is enough. Who knew? Note to self - no more impulse buying of veggies and food items.

New River Icon!

Hee. Got a new Doctor River Song icon, which I cropped from a screenshot that beer_good_foamy posted. Not perfect, but not all that bad either. This is rather nifty actually. Time was I was quietly shipping Doctor River Song and Doctor Song/Doctor Who all by my lonesome. If other people were doing it - they either weren't on my flist or they were being quiet about it like I was. It was uncool to ship River after Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - because you got attacked. I have a tendency to ship characters that piss other people off. It's a thing. ;-)

Not sure how anyone can dislike River - it may have something to do with a comment CW made a while back - she told me that she didn't like tough warrior women characters, she felt that they were fanboy creations and offensive and not really women. They were women trying to be men (I tried not to bristle at this somewhat conservative, limiting and rigid pov. It should be noted that CW is conservative (from a Brit perspective - ultra conservative, from an American perspective, Moderately conservative and is the one who suggested I read Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead for the great female characters (sigh), adored the Lost ending (it validated her world-view and belief system - while I thought it was a bit silly and cliche), is a fan of the first George Bush and Ronald Regan (who I'm convinced destroyed our economy and aided in global warming, amongst other evils), and thinks Buffy was for tween girls...enuf said. In short - we're good friends in spite of our differences in opinion.) I did, after a few moments, analyze why she felt the way she did and I felt the way I did, and came to a meeting of minds on the matter. I get where she's coming from - she feels that women are strong in other ways, and there is a clear difference between gender and to overlook that is demeaning. But CW is also shorter than I am, different body type, has a background as a dancer and football rally girl. While I'm tall and was athletic in a more traditionally masculain way - I can't dance, can't do gymnastics, and pursued track and field, and swimming in school. I have a big bone structure. For me, men and women are equals in all things.
ALL THINGS. And the distinctions are in our own minds. I think..we just see it differently. And maybe I'm doing us both an injustice trying to understand why?

Off to watch In Plain Sight, and hopefully get to bed early. Slept poorly the last two nights. And it's affecting the brain.