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My boss keeps trying to buy me tea.

Which, okay, is nice of her. But a) I bring my own everyday, b) I don't like to buy tea from coffee places because it's always stupid hot and I have to add ludicrous numbers of sugar packets (which I don't currently have), and c) no means no. But she is big into buying drinks for people and today brought my coworker a drink and just included a cup of tea for me without asking. Because, if she had asked, I would have said no. Like I have every other time she's asked me.

So now I have this ridiculously hot beverage that's not going to be anywhere near sweet enough (hours from now, when I can drink the damned thing) which I don't even want because I brought my own tea (which is properly sweetened and at a drinkable temperature).

It's sweet of her to want to do nice things for me, yes. I just wish that she would try to do nice things that I actually want, rather than nice things that are awkward and unpleasant and leaving me drinking things that don't taste good.

Maybe we have sugar in the office somewhere.

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Dear the internet,

Do you have a good recipe for pumpernickel bread/bagels? I am fully aware that there are lots of them out there and available on google, but the last time I tried that, I ended up with a recipe that made bread that was in no way pumpernickel. So this time I have decided to ask you, and thus possibly find a recipe that's semi-approved.

Pumpernickel bread, anybody?