This is one of those hilarious and wonderful things you find on the Internet:

(Edited to add: crap, it's apparently just a clever April Fools' joke from several years back. I suppose the temperature issue should have clued me in. Well, dammit. Maybe someone will make a USB port thing with a step-up transformer or something)

PC E-Z Bake Oven. It's a tiny version of the old E-Z Bake oven (you know, the lightbulb one) that fits into the "spare" 5 1/4" driver bay on a PC. And it plugs into the power source.

So you could bake little cupcakes, or muffins, or I suppose, tiny pizzas (just don't let the melted cheese get down in the PC) while you sit at your desk.

I will say I never had an E-Z Bake Oven as a child; when I asked for one, my mother said, "Why do you want to play with a fake oven? I'll teach you to use a real one, instead."

Still, you know? It would be kind of nice to keep a batch of refrigerator cookie dough on hand, and then at 3 pm (or whenever) bake yourself a single, fresh cookie.

I got called a "goddess" this morning.

(And by a MAN, baby < /austinpowers >)

One of the classrooms where we do a lot of teaching - I do not know why, but its temperature-control system has NEVER worked. (this is a building built in 2000, with supposedly state-of-the-art stuff, etc.)

It was a veritable Black Hole of Cold this morning. Seriously. I swan it was 45 degrees in there.

So I moved my early class to another room that was empty at that hour (and I will probably move it permanently - it is a nicer room and it has a coffeemaker. I promised the students I'd ask the owner of the coffeemaker if they could use it, provided they clean it out).

But my colleague who teaches after me - he had to move to a little-used room. And the computer-projection-screen was not working. So he happened to see me in the hall and asked me to take a look at it (I'm kind of known as the "computer whisperer." Honestly I am not that knowledgeable about them. But I think because I do THINK before I push buttons, more often than not I get things to work.)

And I "fixed" the projector (well, seriously, all I did was hold down the "on" button for longer than the chap had, until the thing lit up and said it was "initiating startup sequence."

Still, there's something good about being known as a person who can make things happen like that, I think.