(dc g7 172 np 8) cupcake monkey

there is a tradition at our staff meetings (and i say tradition to pretend that our group at HQ has been here long enough to say it has a tradition)...anyway, there is a tradition in our staff meetings that whoever has been on travel brings back yums for the group. chocolate from belgium. maple covered nuts from montreal. macadamias from the tropics. last week no one had been on travel, and the conversation turned, as it has at previous unsweetened meetings, to cakelove's cupcakes. there was talk of an expedition to cakelove, and people started wondering how long it would take to get there and whether we could make it on our lunch break. i said it would be a bit silly for all of us to go there, since it's across the street from where i live. yesterday evening when i got back to my desk after a meeting, there were cupcake orders and cash. after yoga, i went to pick up a dozen cupcakes (plus a free one with the dozen purchase!): chocolate on chocolate, raspberry on chocolate, orange on chocolate, lemon on chocolate, lime on chocolate, vanilla almond on chocolate. with loretta's help we brought them in this morning and had a cakelovefest in my disco cubicle. the subject of my broadcast email was "come for the cake, stay for the love." some people actually just came for the love, like the colleague who uses a special hypnotic technique for controlling what he eats. he took one cupcake to be split between him, his wife, and his kids. that's control. he said he's lost 67 pounds. luckily, love has no calories.

i should take pictures. my group has already started disintigrating. everyone will be gone by mid august...scattered to the wind.