t high fives Scola and Dana

I hate coffee as well.

::high-fives MM::

t waits for other buffista-sprog owners to put down their mugs and wave.

Coffee is nasty.

Please note that you can send all Dana's coffee and tomatoes to me.

And you can send me all your unwanted gift cards, too.

If coffee tasted like it smells, it would be wonderful, but it tastes bitter and I don't like it. I feel the same about beer, as it happens. I'm also not much of a hot drink person, though I'll make exceptions for hot chocolate, mulled cider, and the like if it's cold enough outside.

However, I have plenty of use for a Starbucks card, because my writers group meets there. I just get hot chocolate or steamed milk when it's cold and some of their fancy save-the-world, cruelty-free, leash-walked bottled water in the summer.

Slap my hand NOW!

But I'm a friend to the coffee drinker because, despite not being able to put it in my mouth, I do love the smell. A bf once sprinkled hazelnut roast in the floorboards of my car because the smell made me so orgasmic.

No logic. Just fact.

fancy save-the-world, cruelty-free, leash-walked bottled water

FanTAStic phrasing!

I know if only I could drink coffee, I might consider myself an adult.

I dunno -- I've been drinking the stuff for years, and the adulthood thing has yet to kick in.

On The List:

• my professor, who has not emailed paper topics like he said he would
  
• the sun streaming in and hitting my monitor
  
• people in the conference room NOT BEING DONE with their meeting so I may scavenge leftover sandwiches and cookies! I'm dying here!

I just don't know how to frame the counter argument or what to even suggest.

You could try something like "I received your notice that you wish to raise the rent to $X, effective January 1. However, this amount is a huge increase, and more than I believe that market warrants. I would be amenable to a rent increase to $X. Please let me know if this is not acceptable.

Send it registered mail with a return receipt, and keep a copy.

::high-fives MM::

Fuckin' A, bubba.

I do like coffee, I just don't like to make it. As for iced coffee, ewww! Any form of coffee that doesn't involve it being hot is yucky, and that includes frappachinoes and even coffee ice cream.