Okay. [she takes a deep breath] You remember the Russian space station, Mir? When they decommissioned it, it was supposed to all burn up in the atmosphere, but some of it made it to Seattle.

So there I was, on my lunch break from a truly lousy temp job and the seat of a zero-G toilet seat kind of. . . landed on me. And I exploded.

[she looks like she's bracing herself for laughter]