Things I have learned from my office-mates

May 12th, 2008
  1. Even when the tea is free, people will reuse teabags when the tea is a floor down but there’s a hot water dispenser right down the hall.
  2. Mountain Dew is, in fact, the breakfast of champions.
  3. The signs that say you can’t have beverages in the computer lab don’t apply after 8 PM.
  4. There is no such thing as too much orange juice.
  5. The only problem with storing beer in the office fridge is that you’ll inevitably forget about it for six months and the cap will get rusty.
  6. Washing your coffee cup is optional.
  7. Unless you take your coffee with cream; then it’s not.
  8. Especially if you don’t empty your cup at the end of the day.
  9. If that day is a Friday, then god help us all.

3 Responses to “Things I have learned from my office-mates”

  1. dandan Says:

    you totally learned #2 from college :P

    btw, part of my not taking coffee w/milk/cream stemmed directly from the whole “crap that means i have to rinse this” business.

    washing coffee mugs? overrated.

  2. dandan Says:

    who forgets about beer in the fridge?!

  3. neil Says:

    Drinking alone is one thing. Having a beer while you’re wasting your life on the Wikipedia or reading papers doesn’t change anything other than the number of calories you’ve had. Having six could be indicative of a problem, but then, maybe it’s just good beer.

    Working late at night is fine too. It’s not like I’m even capable of getting anything done in the morning, and I can make all the noise I want once my office-mates have gone home.

    But there’s something about cracking open a domestic beer you stole from some random event (probably someone’s defense party), in a building that’s as silent as a tomb because anybody with anything better to do went home two hours ago, while you ponder making an escape (you’re not *that* behind) and realize that there’s no place to go but home to your irritating roommates, and you make a game of guessing how many hours in the last week you’ve spent in this chair — there’s something about all that that makes you feel very low indeed. And maybe next time you’ll just leave the beer in the fridge.

    Ask me how I know.

    :D

    As far as Mountain Dew goes: Guilty as charged. It’s been a long time since I’ve had any of that stuff.

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