between life and death

tonight, or rather this morning, i had a near death experience with a gobstopper. i was enjoying the chewy goodness of my sugary energy boost when something went down the up tube in my throat. there are times when you swallowed something wrong and then there are time when you really choke. this was one of those times. i gasped for air that would not come. i could feel it still in my throat but there was nothing i could do. finally, after several minutes of shallow breathing and much attention from my classmates, life returned to normal and the gobstopper made its way down to the rest of them in my stomach. why are they called gobstoppers anyway? who was the marketing genius behind that one?

random thought of the night: when working in autocad and executing the "hatch" command to fill in an area with a particular pattern, frequently the program will ask you "do you really want to do this?" i don't think my autocad program really wants to know my answer to that question.