Feh. My CSA pickup was supposed to start this week, but I just got an email that it's actually starting next week. No mystery veggies to figure out how to cook today. Mystery veggies are always fun. Even though I do know the name, I still really know nothing about them. The easy defaults are always "stir-fry with tofu and serve with rice" or "saute with some garlic and olive oil and put on top of pasta," but it's fun to find new ways to cook them, too.

I need to go grocery shopping. Do I go to Safeway, which is a short walk but overpriced and crappy selection; or Trader Joe's which is a medium walk and cheaper but mostly packaged stuff and no good tofu or produce; or Whole Foods which is a long walk and sometimes overpriced but has good produce and cheap good-brand tofu?

Our little cube-farm is directly under a huge skylight and two floors of open space.

oooh look. It's Survivor San Francisco!

(eta bc, um. geography?)

They should issue these: [link]

Or these: [link]

Although they'd probably be kind of warm.

oooh look. It's Survivor Los Angeles!

Do we have to eat rats?

They should issue these: [link]

And a Mai Tai.

It's weird. Random office umbrellas. It's vaguely Gorey-esque.

I've been going to a Bikram yoga studio this week and I'm finding all the water drinking I have to do to make it through class difficult to remember.

What's the hivemind got to say about sports drinks? I couldn't choke Gatorade down even after the triathlon in 100 degree heat. Any favorites out there? I'm intrigued by the idea of coconut water, but scared it might be just as foul tasting as the Gatorade.

Hil, it sounds like you go to Whole Foods, to me. The weather is still lovely in DC, so you might as well enjoy the walk before it just gets disgusting here (next week it looks like).

Although they'd probably be kind of warm.

Way too hot!

Not only do we lack privacy, but when the managers go out to the fourth floor deck to smoke, they can look down on us to make sure we're beavering away.

I am starving. There is a line for the microwave. There's never a line for the microwave. Maybe if I just start biting people...

One lady down the row has rigged up an entire canopy of binder clipped paper

That's kind of awesome.

Maybe if I just start biting people...

What if they get an excited smile on their face?

In seven minutes my supervisor will go into a meeting for three hours.

She promised to bring me something before her meeting.

If she doesn't bring me something to do I'll have no work between now and lunchtime.

Yet I would still have internet access.