#work discussions

Me: I love this one maple syrup that's aged in bourbon barrels. Would you be able to try it since you're pregnant?

Her: Well when liquor is heated up it burns the alcohol off.

Me: Maple syrup is heated? I thought they just got it from a tree and bottled it.

Manager: Now, what do you do when you see these alcoholic glasses?

Employee One: Throw them out.

Manager: What? No!

Sometimes, I think my coworkers don’t listen to me when I jabber away, and sometimes I’m reminded that they do actually listen. I jabber because I don’t like the silence. Talking keeps my ADHD brain on track. (Talk about one thing while working through my pages.)

Somehow tonight we got on a discussion with books. Because of the many different trains my thoughts take to get to one place, I tend to forget how I got on a subject. I said something about how I hate the Vampire Diary books and how very rarely do I ever say a show or movie is better than the books but the Vampire Diaries show was better than the books and the Mortal Instruments movie was better than the books. I’d forgotten I’d had the discussion with my desk neighbor before, but the guy that sits two desks down from him says “I think you’ve said this before. Something about incest.”

And then I remembered. My coworker didn’t and said “what has incest? What books?” And I replied “The Mortal Instruments. They’re basically ginger incest fanfiction. I mean, badly written ginger incest fanfiction. But once re-written they are a big hit I guess.”

Which somehow, reminded me of the awful WOT pilot and I got to talking about Wheel of Time with the coworker who remembered my initial discussion about the ginger incest. He said he had never read the books. I suggested he do so, because they are amazing. Desk Neighbor says “what is Wheel of Time?”

The first thing that popped into my head so I wouldn’t have to go into a lot of discussion about it was : “It’s like Game of Thrones but without all the incest, more lesbians, less dragon dragons and one person dragon.”