Thursday TeaDay 11/13/08 Tea and work/school?

[Trey Winston]

I declare a day of high honor to Chip who has whipped up out of thin air a different and interesting poll for us to answer and talk about every day since before my aging brain can even remember. Thanks, Chip, and kudos on an amazing feat of persistence and imagination.

+1. Chip FTW.

Currently enjoying some sencha.

[Vulture]

I declare a day of high honor to Chip who has whipped up out of thin air a different and interesting poll for us to answer and talk about every day since before my aging brain can even remember. Thanks, Chip, and kudos on an amazing feat of persistence and imagination.

+1. Chip FTW.

+1 and a half

I give Chip a hard time a lot so I am giving him more than just a +1

[olivierco]

Hibiki-an sencha SP right now after a long day of work

[geeber1]

I declare a day of high honor to Chip who has whipped up out of thin air a different and interesting poll for us to answer and talk about every day since before my aging brain can even remember. Thanks, Chip, and kudos on an amazing feat of persistence and imagination. I think we can safely blame it on the enormous quantities of Japanese green tea that he consumes.along with a little roast in the toaster oven.

Another +1 for Chip the Awesome One!

Sal, those flowers of yours are intriguing, but I almost expect something to pop out and try to swallow me (Think Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors), but as usual, your photo is lovely and thought-provoking!

On the poll I voted that my love of tea is accepted. People think I'm eccentric anyway so they are not surprised to see me with my bottle of tea every morning.

This morning I had some Nilgiri Tiger Hill from SpecialTeas (Thanks to Sarah), good stuff!

[Maitre_Tea]

I've only been able to find one other person who enjoys tea besides me, and I'm so obsessive about tea that when I start gushing about it people just roll their eyes.
My friends: "hey, this tea is really good"
Me: "Why yes, what you're tasting their is the high roasted nature of the tea, which gives it fruitiness but it also has that slight astringency. Here, smell the leaves, you can detect some chocolate notes along with some spiciness..."
My friends: "blank stare followed by an eye roll"

I remember when my friends and I were at the Forbidden Palace in Beijing and we saw a collection of antique yixing teapots. My friends asked me why they're so small and I started explaining that small is better...we being college students, my friends started making perverted remarks. >.>

[chad]

My tea addiction is very well accepted at work. I've gotten several other folks interested in loose teas and we've had tea bags (Bigelow) available from the coffee service for quite a while. I frequently answer questions about tea and direct them to the place I buy my loose teas. With all my plastic containers of loose leaf, I often get asked "Is that legal in all 50 states?"

But then, I work for a Hospice software company and everyone knows "Hospice" and "software" people are a bit different!!

Margaret's Hope darjeeling in the mug.

[teaguru]

My love of tea is generally accepted, though most people laugh at me...

I work in a production plant in a very rural part of Nova Scotia, where everyone lives off coffee, so my tea obsession is often an object of ridicule. People also think I'm crazy because I like it. They think it tastes icky, but I whole heartedly disagree! It is coffee that tastes icky! None of them seem to trust the health benefits of tea either. There's a guy in the office who would rather continue to be miserable and grumpy and suffer from his cold than accept my offer of some nice lemon green. Craziness I tell you!

In my cup right now is a blend of sencha and lemongrass, because I don't want grumpyman's cold.

[daughteroftheKing]

Bob M - WELCOME! Thanks for coming out of lurkdom and posting. Stop by the Introduction threads and introduce yourself a bit, too. Glad to have you here.

Vulture - cool looking new avi.

I voted accept, even though I do get the occasional eyeroll, especially when I get a tea order and immediately have to show off any wares and make whoever-can't-get-away take a whiff of the tea.
It was a long time coming, but last year I was finally able to start a weekly tea gathering we call T@3. The little half-hour break isn't really about the tea, though. The tea is an excuse to fellowship and not talk about work for 30 minutes.

Only Jasmine pearls, my favorite, so far this morning.

[murrius]

My tea drinking at work passes without comment. However, throwing a tea bag into a travel mug at 3:00 pm isn't that wierd I suppose. We will see how things develop when, inspired by the highly developed work-tea practices my teachat mentors have shown the last few days, I bring in a kyusu and develop a tea corner in my office.

The eye rolling at my tea obsession seems to be reserved for my family members.

Second flush Darjeeling FTGFOP1 (Tukdah) in my cup this morning (yum!).

Happy "Kudos To Chip" day everyone. Thank you Chip for your dedication to TeaChat.

[Pentox]

I get a fair amount of eye rolling. Not because it's tea, but because it's more than the normal toss a bag in the cup mentality.

Today: O-cha Chiran YM. Almost done with my pack.

[Goose]

Session part two today.

[jazz88]

I'm my own boss and my husband is my only coworker He likes tea a lot – we share quite a few cups of tea together. Our daughter,a freshmen at college, has an electric tea maker in her dorm and quite a stash of different teas. She is the real tea addict in our family! Besides, next semester she's taking a Tea Ceremony course at college.

Got my order from Adagio including keemun rhapsody (that was so good) and sencha premier – I think I drunk a gallon of sencha yesterday.

Going to brew a cup of sencha in a sec.

[Smari]

People here make fun of me for drinking tea It's more so for the kettle I have that would sometime cause a power outage here. So every time I'm about to turn on the kettle, I have Instant Message people to let them know to save their work. It's hilarious around here...

Right now, I'm about to brew some rooibos with some spearmint. Crappy weather today...

[Victoria]

In my cup here at work -

Giddapahar FTGFOP1 CH (SPL)
2nd Flush Darjeeling direct from India

Very nice, very smooth - but actually I prefer a first flush,
a little more greeness or bite.

[olivierco]

Yame gyokuro (o-cha) in a few minutes.