I'm working at the library where I did 40 years ago. Our workload's changed--now instead of sorting books, we sort lava--two kinds. By hand. The previous corporate policy was to lump all sorts together, but now the reuse market has changed and purity's needed and we have a big backlog of mixed magma to sort.

I'm near the end of a long table where we sort--with caution. You don't want to scorch your hands. Or lips. We snack on the job. Lava is of course hot but edible--with caution.

What you do is, you scoop a dollop out a huge lake of magma, toss it in a smaller insulated bowl where YOU sit, floating in the lava, and sort it, poking and... eating? Yes, it's our complimentary on-the-job breakfast, all lava-hot. Bolides (volcanic eggs), blast-fried potatoes, and crater-roasted vegs. Wait, three lava food groups? But our guidelines only cover two.

I think the eggs and vegs are healthy for me--though hot, right at my tolerance-limit. But I need to limit starches. A bit's okay, but overall, carbos are riskier than volcanic heat!

• Monotonous work: I checked out new art at DeviantArt.com, but it was mostly endless, similar, AI-generated work.
• 3 lava types not two: NOVA showed the Solar System's volcanoes. Three broad types of magma: rock (Venus, Earth, Mars), sulfur compounds (Io) & water (Titan, Enceladus, Triton, Pluto)
• Hot food, burn hazard: on TV mystery show Mrs Sidhu a man murdered in a high-security tower fell face down onto just-delivered pizza. Yet no burns! The cheese didn't even stick to his skin--that pizza was cold. Sidhu deduces the killer bought pizza earlier, then posed as a deliverer to get entry.
• Sort types of hot food: I ate leftover Korean kimchee rice, red with hot oil; added tofu & greens, and later a salad too. Still too much starch? Risky for me.
• Fried potatoes bad for me: literal. I have to beware fries and hash browns. Volcanic or not.
• ACTION 1: Next time add eggs for more protein, and maybe skip the rice entirely. I was raised not to waste food, but if it's bad for me, is it really food?
• ACTION 2: Don't draw using AI, either. If empty calories are junkfood, isn't derivative imagery junk art? Keep drawing your dreams by hand. Funky but better? More than that--funky IS better.

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