i drink a lot of tea. you wouldn’t know it if your only experience with my beverage choices is seeing me at work — wherein i usually drink coffee (and a pretty good amount of it) — but i actually prefer tea in most circumstances. circumstances that don’t equate “tea” with “lipton bagged crap that really ought not to be called tea because it’s so crap,” i mean. free hint for tea manufacturers: wrapping teabags in paper packaging that doesn’t actually keep air out is, um, not so very useful when it comes to attempting to preserve any deliciousness your tea might ever conceivably have had in the past.
yeah, tea snob. anyways, at work, i have a coffeemaker with an insulated carafe, an electric kettle, and an odd little glass teapot i got for like $5 at ikea. now, like i said, i usually make coffee — other people like to drink the coffee, and i like having people come visit me, so making coffee facilitates the slack. and whenever i make a pot of tea, i’m the only one who drinks it, and it usually goes cold before i can finish the entire pot, so i generally don’t bother. but i recently took up knitting. and knitting juxtaposed with a cold pot of tea gave me the idea that i could knit a tea cosy. because i totally, totally could. so i did.
