It's Tea!

Today, I have for you a story.

One fine day, I was sitting in my office. Except it wasn't terribly fine because it was the Friday before spring break and I was working on engineering drawings that weren't being terribly fun. And waiting for a friend (V) who was about to get there. But it was ok.

Suddenly! A head appeared over the cubicle-divider walls in front of me.

"Hi!" The head said. "Do you mind if I go through your office to get to mine?"

"No, go right ahead," I replied, suppressing giggles the whole while. It wasn't easy. Because he proceeded to climb over two cubicle walls; not that I could see it. (My office has two halves; he went through the other half, behind a wall from me.) You see, the grad student 'offices' are really one giant room divided into cubicles of various sizes. Sometimes with their own door and sometimes without. Anyway, after he was gone I signed on to Facebook and immediately informed the world that someone had finally jumped/climbed the cubicle walls. I had been waiting for it to happen for months.

I thought the story was over.

Monday (after an awesome weekend :) ) I arrived at work and went to check my mail; I was waiting on a fax, which did not arrive. However, my mailbox had a small box with a card attached. I read it. It said:

Dear Galina,

Thank you for letting me go through your cubicle. I have seen you making tea several times so I hope you will enjoy this tea. I am also of course willing to return the service you have rendered me, should you ever be locked out of your office.

Signed,

The tea was Ahmad. I was impressed, to say the least. Also, anyone with a taste in tea is OBVIOUSLY a good person. I was going to write him a card, but frankly, I'm just not awesome enough for that. So I said thanks for the card next time I saw him in the hallway. :) Next time after that I asked when he was stopping by for tea. He said sometime. The next time I made fun of him for being at school on a Sunday night (note: I was necessarily also there, also on Sunday night :\ ) Apparently we were both on the way out, because he offered me a ride 5 minutes later when I was at the bus stop. I refused because my bus was pulling up and it wasn't that close to him anyway...but it was nice :)

So, that's the story. I made a new friend :)