Oh, that injury toll.

For reference, it is rarely a good idea to cook after a couple of manhattans. It's probably yet more rare for it to be well-advised to dice potatoes after a couple of mahattans. Worse yet is if you choose to demonstrate proper knife technique to your long-suffering ladyfriend. The reason that this is worse is that such hubris no doubt offends the hard-drinkin' king of the cosmos which causes him to send a nine-inch Henckels chef's knife to Earth along with hopes, dreams, movies. This is not, in and of itself, such a bad thing, but if the aforementioned German steel plunges to Earth through one's nail and the tender flesh beneath it becomes, to say the least, embarassing.

And I can no longer claim that no librarians were harmed in the making of this soup.