What's that smell?

This last Friday as I was blow drying the little hair I have on my head, and I sort of had an accident.  Let me explain. As I was taking my round brush to the top of my head I noticed that the air coming out of the dryer was getting painfully hot, so I started holding the cool button, but the temp. did not cool down.  The next thing I know my head is burning and the smoke detector is going off.  I quickly turn off the blow-dryer and start to take the round brush out of my hair, but the brush was not the only thing that came out.  So did my hair!  That hot dryer combined with the tin on my roomate's round brush (she let me use her's because I left mine at home) had fried my hair off!  the singed part of my hair just kept breaking off as I gently pulled my fingers through it. I probably stood in front of the mirror for 10 minutes taking handfuls and handfuls of hair off my head!  I don't have much hair to begin with, so I would just be liking for you to know.. now there is even LESS.  Now when I wash my hair this wafting smell of burned hair engulfs my nose.  I'm not sure if it's real or just my imagination. But I have decided burned hair is the worst smell ever, especially if it's your own!