Went out and bought a bag of white rice (since we only seem to have flavored rice in the house) and now my phone is in tupperware. Hopefully it does the trick.

Just as an embarrassing note, I did try to boot the phone before reading the updates here and it did start the boot cycle, so I'm more than hopeful that it will work. In hindsight, I agree that it was kinda dumb to try booting it up so soon.