Sadly, my best option for hot water is to take it directly from the coffee brewer. This is probably strictly american and therefore going to be hard to explain. The office has a coffee machine which is hooked up to the building's water supply. It sits in the kitchen and its only job is to heat water and then release it into the filter full of coffee grounds on demand - this means that to make a pot of coffee all one has to do is dump the used filter and coffee, put in a new filter full of new coffee (dumped out of a bag, not freshly ground [disgusting, yes?]) and press the button for hot water. For us tea drinkers, you can get at the hot water through a faucety-type appendage. It's not quite boiling, but it's too hot to drink straight away and really the best I can hope for unless I boil water in the microwave - which I suppose I could do, that's only 3-4 minutes, so that would be doable - and also may add to the precious time spent away from my desk...although people are already looking at me a bit oddly as I am now walking to and from the kitchen with a tiny tea pot multiple times a day. :-)
Well at least I'm not drinking tea from a proper tea pot and scribbling in my notebook at the same time - can't you just see the heads exploding? ;_0
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Date: 2012-07-18 02:07 am (UTC)Sadly, my best option for hot water is to take it directly from the coffee brewer. This is probably strictly american and therefore going to be hard to explain. The office has a coffee machine which is hooked up to the building's water supply. It sits in the kitchen and its only job is to heat water and then release it into the filter full of coffee grounds on demand - this means that to make a pot of coffee all one has to do is dump the used filter and coffee, put in a new filter full of new coffee (dumped out of a bag, not freshly ground [disgusting, yes?]) and press the button for hot water. For us tea drinkers, you can get at the hot water through a faucety-type appendage. It's not quite boiling, but it's too hot to drink straight away and really the best I can hope for unless I boil water in the microwave - which I suppose I could do, that's only 3-4 minutes, so that would be doable - and also may add to the precious time spent away from my desk...although people are already looking at me a bit oddly as I am now walking to and from the kitchen with a tiny tea pot multiple times a day. :-)
Well at least I'm not drinking tea from a proper tea pot and scribbling in my notebook at the same time - can't you just see the heads exploding? ;_0