mtv lifer writing a Joss Whedon biography to come out in 2013. i watch a lot of television. a lot. and i talk about fandom and television in general lot. 
Principia-coh also recommended the Teavana Perfect Teamaker. I would now like to have a big tea party where we all bring our favorite personal tea brewers and we can try them all out.
I have several loose-leaf strainers but what i love about these personal brewers is that they’re so portable. I kept mine in the office — i used to fill it from the hot water tap in our pantry then walk back to my office and not worry about it spilling. And I can’t stress enough how fabulous it is for making iced tea — just put 2 teabags in (i just used lipton black tea, or pg tips if i had it), let it steep off to the side and pour it over a huge tumbler of ice, adding more and more as needed.
I finally found an article with a comment thread where the comments don’t make me hate humanity: Brew the perfect cup of tea
Some edited highlights:
- i love tea hot or cool
- I like Earl Grey
- I want to be a tea drinker, but I am so hooked on coffee that tea seems unsatisfying to me. Any tips?
- Great article, giving a go to whatever species of tea leaves available is a long term goal of mine.
- I am an avid tea drinker & even brew it in the coffee pot sometimes, in a hurry & it tastes great. I hate tea with sugar in it; it destroys the taste of the tea itself. I usually drink it cold, but hot also, just not as much. I’ve been hooked on it all of my life. I like most kinds, but mostly drink green & black teas for some reason, but like most other’s.
- is there a sertant type of sugar or honey you should use if so what kind and how much
- When I first started drinking hot tea, I bought a tin of raspberry and blueberry black tea. I can never find that flavor in stores anymore though. But, I do love mint tea just as much.
Because nothing is quite so interesting as “whatever just popped into your mind regarding tea that you now feel you need to share with the world.” Dear total stranger: I like Earl Grey too.
(this is, of course, just a roundabout way of announcing that I am preparing to drink tea)
Five Things That Popped Into My Mind Regarding Tea That I Now Need To Share With The World:
- I drink a lot of brewed iced tea. Plain, no sugar. I often order it with extra ice because a high school friend worked at Long John Silver and they had a very particular ratio of tea to ice as they (and most places) brew it strong. It upsets me when a restaurant lets the iced tea sit around too long because it gets a funny, stale taste. I usually get mine from Wendy’s as they seem to have a high demand (probably because they’re the only fast food restaurant in the area that makes truly brewed iced tea) and thus it’s usually fresh.
- The IngenuiTEA by Adagio is a thing of magic and is wonderful for brewing loose tea and tea bags. It’s also perfect for making strong tea to pour into a huge cup of ice for your own fresh iced tea.
- I used to have an addiction to ordering Adagio’s tea samplers. They are reasonably priced for a decent amount of tea and they have so many damn teas that I want to try. I have half of one shelf filled with their little tea sampler cans.
- Earl Grey makes my stomach hurt — I think it’s the bergamot. Lady Grey doesn’t bother me as much. I love the smell of Jasmine tea but hate the way it tastes. I want to love the taste of Harney & Sons Paris Tea as much as I love the smell but it’s pretty close.
- Genmaicha soothes my soul in a way that nothing else does.
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I havent had enough coffee to deal with that. I will never have had enough coffee to deal with that.
I KNOW!
When I watched it, I was speechless and my mouth agape the entire time. I was only able to move up to “i just. i don’t. i don’t — what?” a few minutes later.
Then I found History of Sushi Cats which is less surreal but no less confounding.
April, season 3
“Why have I never seen this before?” April demanded.
“It used to be on all the time, like when I was a teenager, but I guess you weren’t old enough for MTV back then,” Andy said, shrugging.
She marathoned the entire series in three days (live-texting it with Orin), and the third night, she dreamed Ya Heard? With Perd had been canceled and replaced with Sick, Sad World. It was a good dream.
On Monday, she wore a green hoodie over an orange shirt.
The realization that April probably didn’t grow up with Daria hurts my heart a little, but stillcape makes it all better.
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I want that in my eyeballs now, please.
I KNOW! My eyeballs are on strike and are totes refusing to read or concentrate on anything until i give it to them.
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I’m 89% sure you’re the only person who’s going to share that particular set of details with me today.
So, verdict? Did anyone else share those details with you on Thursday? (Also, I sadly lost the battle for “anal.” However, I did get to write some fantastic emails and have amazing conversations that would have gotten me in trouble with HR had they not been completely and totally work related.)
HA! I can answer these both in one shot as my Mini-Bees Knees are the last pair of shoes that I bought.
I do love them so! Super comfortable and I get SO many compliments on them. My only frustration is that I can’t wait until the weather gets nicer so that I can wear them with cute skirts and dresses as it’s been so chilly that I’m in jeans all the time and thus, you can’t see the awesomeness of my Fluevogs.
Starting doing things for people by doing this drabble for amypop. (It mentions Leslie’s hair! I’m sorry! But it comes out of the episode, I swear!)
Deleted/AU scene for 3x13, “The Fight”: Andy lets a vital piece of information slip
This makes my Andy-spilling-the-beans-to-Leslie heart so, so happy!
After all, it is canon that Sweetums makes condoms…
(maybe in old-people candy flavors? Wintergreen, praline…let’s see, what other candy flavors do old people like? Chocolate-covered cherry, which has the additional advantage of sounding dirty)
Ethel should be the spokesperson for Sweetums Condom’s new “Hard Candy” line.
Ethel Beavers being super good at dating is maybe the most delightful tiny bit of continuity yet. Pawnee’s seniors know how to get it on.
I just hope that she practiced safe sex. We all know about the STDs in the senior community.
I feel that Ethel would be a most…
Can you see Ethel handing out condoms? “Take one, or don’t take one. Use it if you feel like it. I don’t care, do what you want.”
That little scene makes me happy that I once had Ethel fantasizing about shirtless Chris, I must say.
This really needs to be an episode. And there needs to be 100% more Ethel Beavers on the show.
That was one of my favorite early April & Andy moments—they both like old people. And, as we saw in in “The Bubble” old people think they’re adorable.
So basically April and Andy need to work with Ethel to teach old people about safe sex. It would be perfect.
You know, with Andy working with Ben at Sweetum’s Charity Foundation, I think it makes PERFECT SENSE that he goes to check out a non-profit sexual health organization that focuses on seniors. But he needs a senior to go with him, so he takes Ethel and April ends up having to drive. And of course, hijinks and confusion abound and it’s either assumed that they’re all in some kind of polyamorous relationship or that Andy and Ethel are in a May-December romance and April is Ethel’s disapproving granddaughter.
