Coffee breaks...

So, since RR left the museum, my morning coffee routine has been interrupted. Now, I don’t consume coffee every morning or anything like that, but several times a week a caffeine jolt is more than necessary to keep me from drooling/falling asleep at my desk. However, now that RR is gone, it is difficult to find anyone that:

A) Wants coffee…
B) Hasn’t already stopped by Starbucks on their way into the office…
C) I necessarily want to have coffee with…

There have been two occasions where my boss, my boss’s secretary, the Marketing Director and I have been standing in the Board Room with the light either off or on “very dim” (as so to not hurt our sleepy eyes) waiting – in awkward silence – for the coffee to brew. It was like we were all statues – kinda like the ones on Easter Island, but inside and facing one another in the dark (as opposed to outdoors, in the harsh South Pacific sun, looking out at the ocean). Since no one had anything that they could think of to say (my boss, to compensate for the silence, kept nervously clearing his throat), we all just…stood there.

That was about the time the Vonage song (from the commercial) popped into my head, and all I could think of was, “woo hoo, woo hoo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo hoo...” Talk about an annoying earworm (or is it “bagworm”?). It was all I could do to keep from humming/whistling it aloud.

Maybe I should start drinking tea again…