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[bedlamsbard]

Signs that you may be Asian: your cure for "I feel like shit and the temperature has dropped thirty degrees, thanks a lot, New Orleans" is a mug of green tea and a cup of miso soup. Presumably I actually sound terrible too, since a guy in my Greek class brought it up with some concern. (I was sick right before break; I was actually fine all through break until today, since I don't function well on five hours of sleep, not much breakfast, and stifling failure. Anyway, the miso should help with one of those, although dear gods on Olympus, this is salty, I think I usually add more water.)

Yeah, I definitely do want to cut my hair -- it's down today, since I had it down last night and slept with it down, so it's actually dry for a change, which means I can notice that it's (a) really long and (b) kind of boring. No layers or anything. I'm trying to decide whether it would be weird to say that I want Grace Park's BSG hair, only slightly longer, or if that's too geeky. (The last time I cut my hair to look like a fictional character, I was in elementary school and I brought in a copy of one of the Nancy Drew books that had George on the cover. I'm also pretty sure that was the last time I had really short hair; I don't look good with really short hair.) I mean, it's not weird hair or anything.

Let me see if I can bang out a paragraph in the twenty minutes before I have to go class again.

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[delfinnium]

strangely enough, they say that its holes are too big for looseleaf tea.

.... O_O

Are they using teapowder?

[bedlamsbard]

*hands* I don't even know. Some smaller tea leaves do get through, but it's not that big a deal, that happens even when you're steeping tea in a mug.

[delfinnium]

unless by looseleaf tea they mean something like lipton's looseleaf yellow label?

That tea IS basically powder, and it needs a bodum plunger thingy to make sure most of it doesn't end up in the drink.

But still.

When I had a metal teapot , my strainer was exactly like that one, and my jasmine tea was perfeclty fine. *bemused*

[bedlamsbard]

Yeah, it's no worse than any other strainer; I used to use it exclusively before I finally bought a strainer. People are snobs, what can I say.

[delfinnium]

Well i know that in the tea-drinking world, adding sugar to green teas is ABSOLUTE blasphemy. And apparently Lipton tea is considered the absolute dregs of shitty tea bits. So I wouldn't know.

one of my teapots needs a teastrainer - I know that there is all that talk about how tea leaves shouldn't be put in a strainer so they can UNFURL and all that, but getting a strainer to put over my teacup is irritating, because I like having more than one cup of tea at a time. :|

[bedlamsbard]

I hate adding anything to green tea, agh. *shudders*

I have a strainer to put over my teacup, though it doesn't have very many holes, so I have to pour very slowly. *eyeroll* I don't mind, though. Or I just ignore the strainer and pour straight into the cup.

[delfinnium]

Heh. :P sometimes I want a light sweet drink. so sugar! into tea!

Other times I can't abide anything in my tea so.

Apparently people eat tealeaves for their health. And Roughage. So it's not a big deal.

Also, that teapot sounds horrid. :|

[bedlamsbard]

The teapot is terrible. I only use it if my other two teapots are out of commission for some reason and I specifically want a teapot, not a mug. (My options, I have many. I have several different strainers, too.)