Fight the Power.

It’s been a crazy-busy week, and next week won’t be any better.  (Next week is our scheduled governmental audit and everyone is a little keyed-up, naturally.)

I’ve been depending on lots of tea at work to get me through the workday. (That and bothering Pete via Gmail chat.)  Haven’t had a lot of time to do formal tastings on any more of the new teas this week (I’ve also been distracted by the beginning of my yearly yarn-frenzy…this year’s bout of knitting has begun), but I did have time to attempt to right a grave, grave wrong.  (And to be free with my parentheticals, clearly.)
In the office kitchen, the only provided tea-choice is a big box of vile, horrid, food-service quality “Darjeeling” tea.  This stuff is *way* worse than Lipton.  It’s dreadful.  And yet, somebody is drinking it…I know they are, since the box very slowly gets less-full.  So it’s probably only one or two people, judging from the volume, and it’s probably only once in a while.

That’s still too many people drinking it too often.  Time to attempt to Stick it to the Man.

Sign taped to the inside of the office kitchen tea box cover:

I’ll be sure to tell you all if I have any takers. 

In other news, while I’m sure *everyone* has read both of the NY Times articles on tea (teabags and gongfu tea) as they’ve been all over the blogs and mailing lists, this video has not yet gotten as much attention.  It showed up on a (the!) tea newsgroup a few days ago and I only just got around to watching it now. 

I know we’ve all seen the other videos of gongfu cha/etc. on Google video/YouTube/etc., but this one must be fairly new.  Now, I’m not linking to it for educational purposes (or even this man’s incredibly creepy-yet-amusing constant sociopathic smile) or telling you to follow this fella’s technique.  What I am linking to it for is the fact that I just spent five minutes trying not to laugh my morning tea through my nose.  Starting at about one minute into the video, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, watch the bottom left corner.  There is a strange lightning bolt-esque lightshow over the HEAD OF A SMALL WHITE DOG.

It is bizarre, inexplicable (please tell me post-processing!) and HILARIOUS.  Go now.

Have a super weekend, everyone!