the dangers of being pre-coffee.....

So today - the office is throwing a big Earth Day potluck. It's the launch of Entercom Corporate's 1Thing initiative - a corporate wide environmental campaign to greatly reduce the company's carbon footprint. They are doing away with utensils (cups, forks, spoons, etc.) (and providing us with a earth-friendly set of reusable plate set and an official "1Thing" cup. Its a pretty aggressive and honest effort to reduce waste (moving to 100% recycled papers; getting rid of almost all of our printers and moving to a PDF world, etc.).

But - back to the potluck. I made this delicious caprese salad (mozzarella and Roma tomatoes in a vinaigrette). I got up this morning and packed it up carefully - then on my way to the elevator proceeded to drop it down the trash shoot with the garbage I was taking out. After a tourette syndrome cursing fit in the garbage room (I realized what I'd done as soon as the PAIR of bag handles left my hand) I rushed downstairs figuring - it was in a paper bag and a plastic tupper - so I could retrieve it; only to arrive as the compactor in the basement did it's morning compacting; permanently smashing my potluck hopes. (insert charlie brown style AUUUUUUUGH! here)

so I decided with 80 employees there would be plenty of food and I just got to the office. and as of writing this post I STILL don't have coffee. *grumble*

OH MY GOD - MY EYES! THE BURNING!

be very very careful and not accidentally type in faecbook.com instead of facebook.com. faecbook.com redirects to xxxtube.com - and becomes ENTIRELY TOO NASTY instantaneously. not that I did that or anything. with coworkers watching. on a giant projection screen. no - nothing like that happened to me. nope.