blergh. need better tea.

[jazzfish]

Waking up at five in the morning and not being able to get back to sleep: bad.

Having a real cup of tea at 6:15 after giving up on sleeping: very good.

Using the extra forty-five minutes to get some writing done: pretty decent.

Coming to work and being unpleasantly confronted with how awful the tea here actually is: extraordinarily bad.

I mean, seriously. I'm brewing a large mug of tea with a single teabag and using water that's not quite boiling. (I do microwave it after running it into the cup, but that doesn't help enough.) I knew that it wasn't very good tea to start with. But compared with the strong cup of keemun hao-ya a I made this morning . . .

LUCY: This is awful! It tastes like you put a brown crayon in some hot water!
LINUS: You're right. I'm sorry. I'll go add another crayon.

Comments

[rbandrews]

My company runs on coffee. There's a coffee bar in the middle of the office, with an espresso machine and all sorts of related junk. There are also a few varieties of tea bags (including the Bigelow raspberry stuff) and they are more than willing to take requests for new tea purchases. Also there's a spigot on the big coffee machine that dispenses extremely hot water.

Still thinking about how to bring loose tea there though.

[jazzfish]

That sounds about like here. Only without the espresso machine. And while the water from the spigot is hot, it's not boiling, which is frustrating.

[rbandrews]

I don't know if ours is quite boiling, but it's plenty hot enough to make tea.