Cupcake Girl

Okay . . . so I have a weakness for brownies. Like, big, chewy, gooey, brownies with chunks of dark chocolate in them. Texas-size, cupcake-shaped brownies that get shipped up from, well, Texas. Like the ones that arrived in an overnight box of sugary caloric goodness when I infiltrated Mozilla’s Download Day. MMMMMM. I saw them in the kitchen, quietly whispering with that silky, evil chocolate voice: “Pick me up. Eat me. I’m tasty and delicious. You know you want me.”

Well, okay, if you insist. I pick the prettiest one, heavy and slightly sticky. This is gonna be goooooood . . . But I want to remember, before the massive dose of sugar hits my pleasure synapses, to tell Clint to thank his mother for the very tasty care package. He’s over in the common area, watching Download Day as it gets out the gate.

I don’t pay any attention to the Air Mozilla camera, thinking that it’s still feeding live from Toronto . . . especially because the Mountain View feed isn’t what’s up on our main screen. But my friend is chatting, and I can’t stand it anymore. It won’t hurt to dig into this thing and then say thank you with my mouth full when there’s a pause in his conversation, right? So I peel off the wrapper and dig into that giant, tender, squishy good brownie. And what the world sees is this:

Now, this wouldn’t have been so bad, except that right at this moment the Air Mozilla feed decided to lock up. So that image — me with a look of bliss, pinky extended, digging into a massive brownie — was frozen for all Mozillans to see. Oh, joy. Instantly the #airmozilla IRC channel is joking about “cupcake girl.” (From the backlighting and the ginormous proportion of the brownie, it’s easy to mistake it for a cupcake.) Comments ranged from mockery of the look on my face to expressions of jealousy over there being no cupcakes for remote workers. “i want a cupcake too.” “EPIC CAKE.” “bring back cupcake girl.” Either way, it was super embarassing.

So yes, it’s me. Cupcake Girl. Ha, ha. Please stop e-mailing me “2 girls, 1 cupcake” jokes now.