i hope i don't have tea with any international dignitaries anytime soon

one more thing. i have become so accustomed to the word "teabag" in it's hilarious ball-placing context, that i cannot hear it in it's normal usage without crapping up. last night dan told me that despite his lack of cooking gas, he could make tea using his espresso machine. it ended something like this: "a hot cup of water and you just put a teabag in it." i could not stop laughing.