Why,
I wonder, am I so averse to buying mugs? I am working from home today and just made some tea because it's only 53 out and I'm feeling chilly, and looked at the mug and realized that it was a present for my 28th birthday. Its brother, next to it on the shelf, a present from the professor for a class I TAd in, oh, 1997. And its newish adopted siblings were just thrown in with a bunch of other freebies at a "I'm moving to Costa Rica in a few weeks, please, just take my stuff" yard sale in September. Glasses I like, I like just fine. But there's something about a mug...
(Hey Erma, oh, and Lance too, the aforementioned mug was given to me by a guy with a perm, probably wearing an eagle necklace at the time. Just so you can further contextualize it.)
(Hey Erma, oh, and Lance too, the aforementioned mug was given to me by a guy with a perm, probably wearing an eagle necklace at the time. Just so you can further contextualize it.)
posted by Pangea at 11:22 AM
8 Comments:
"...it's only 53 out and I'm feeling chilly..."
I hate you. Ok, not really hate, but I wish our weather was more like yours.
I know, I hate myself too sometimes (but so much less than for most of my adult life!). It's funny, I do still miss Chicago, it's in some ways the best place I've lived, but I do not not not not not not not not not miss that weather. One bit.
:) 53? I mean, you mean, like, 12 for the rest of the world?
:D ...get outta town! Other places, the weather suffers from its usual ADHD (aka being completely different by the time you reach the door) but is aware that it should at least /try/ to be wintery so gives us its occasional idea of a blizzard (for yes 10min, between May-ish sunshine, March-like blue sky drizzle, and Novemberey mist vs. the wind. In random order.) - so in case one wouldn't like the weather here... just wait a while, you shall be able to go out any time now...
Meanwhile, at home I'm still using first mug i bought this millenium; all the others got nicked from faculty tea rooms (serves me right, to take them there), or were presents (& i rather avoid taking them into danger), or... (...well the one i use in the office was nicked from a tea room that vanished one that i'd bought...)
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Sorry, forgot I had an international audience here -- I figure once you go over 40 and it's not known to be a massive heatwave then you kind of don't have to mark your temperature as (F). But next time I talk temperature I will include centigrade equivalents. 12 isn't vacation weather, you know. My parents are here right now, in from NY, and boy are their arms, no wait, they're sad about it being not in the 70s/20s. (See!)
Sorry to hear about the rampant mug thievery in Scotland. Do you think Interpol is on it?
Thanks for the context. It did make the picture more vivid.
We have an excess of mugs here, as they do make popular gifts. It makes me wish I had a second home or a boat so that I could stock the kitchen there with all the extras.
See you in 30 hours or so! Will keep the 53 degrees in mind when packing.
Humh, I remember reading a scientific paper about the disappearance rate of tea spoons from academic common rooms... if i remember correctly, they found the half life of common tea spoons to be less than 6 months and concluded, given the tracelessness of the missing spoons, that the whole thing must either be a gigantic ruse of the tea spoon industry, or there is a planet somewhere out there in the universe that is actually inhabited by spoonoid life-forms. (I'm so annoyed to not find that reference now, dang.)
Makes me wonder now if there is any connection between the scottish lack of mugs, and the abundance around erma's... d'you think it's the fabled secret mug cemetery, thereabouts?
And what, in this context, about the 3 core rules of the common room - being (1) there's always a mug, (2) there's always a mug to wash, and (3) there's always a mug to wash mine?
Hummmmmh...
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/331/7531/1498
Also, Phil and Erma live in places with I think about the same approximate rainfall, so I would look to sociocultural variables (which, I guess, makes more sense since we are talking about mugs here).
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