hot chocolate

so my coworker who sits behind me and I walk to the kitchen together -
my idea since she was getting chatty and i was getting thirsty.

in the kitchen i decide that i want some hot chocolate. i go for the
free swiss miss packs and she's like 'oh i have some jacques torres
hot chocolate that you can have'. im like, yeah, thanks, sure, that
def trumps swiss miss.

when we get back to our desks she hands me the hot chocolate. problem
: now i cant tell and also dont remember her exact words when she
offered it. did she say she couldnt finish it or didnt want it? in
these swine flu times, small things like that make a difference!

so i thank her and take the drink to the kitchen. i poured it into the
sink. it hurt to watch how rich it was and how it didnt go down the
drain that easily (cuz i think the drain is staring to clog? or cuz it
was just that delicious? who really will know now).

by this time i had thrown out the lid, oh, and i still wanted hot
chocolate. i thought, what if i pour the swiss miss into the foam cup.
so i cleaned out the cup. damnit, that's not gonna work. it looks
different - i need the lid if im going to do that. there was a
different coworker in the kitchen. he didnt see me reach into the
trash for the just thrown out lid - phew.

but now , i have a lid that i dont want to put my mouth to - for
several reasons. a cup that even though i rinsed out, and never threw
into the trash, i also dont want to drink from.

so i walked back to my desk, but not empty-handed. i brought the empty
jacques torres cup back to my desk to save face with the nice
co-worker behind me. i think i even pretended to drink from it.

an hour later, i threw it away. i dont even want hot chocolate anymore.

toilet paper

for the first time in a long time i am running low on toilet paper. this only happens about 9 months after i stock up. now i dont remember what a good price on toilet paper even is. i just know that i should buy in bulk at walmart. but there's no walmart near me, i only make trips when i visit my sis in Penn. because i dont plan on visiting her this weekend just so i can stock up on toilet paper i have an alternate plan.

recently there have been 3 rolls of toilet paper in every stall in my workplace bathroom. but since there are only 2 toilet paper holders every stall has one orphan roll that just sits on top of a roll that already has a home. why would the janitor start doing this? the only reason i can come up with is that he ocassionally wants someone to take an extra roll home.

my new friend

I was on my way home tonight, you know, in Brooklyn, when I saw the racoon again. It stopped rummaging through the trash to look at me so I then decided to cross to the other street.

super funky

i'm in a funk as of late. i need to get out of it. i cleaned up my apt (minus the dishes) as prep for having company this weekend. other thing to note is that my manager came up to me this week and suggested i have some coffee. have you ever wanted to punch someone in the face? i am not a morning person, i don't drink coffee, it was 11am, i wanted to be left alone.

on to happier things: currently making a skirt for a friend.

random thing: i saw a raccoon climb a tree while i was on my way home, you know, in Brooklyn.