Tuesday, January 31, 2012

I Am Irrationally Irked at Olives

I hate olives.


I'm generally not a picky eater, but if you order a pizza to share with me, and it contains olives, I will be upset. "Jenna, you could just pick off the olives." I do that. And it then tastes delightful. The fact that they were there at all still upsets me though. Why?


Great question. If I had an answer, this blog would probably be called Rational Ranting. 


It's not.


So today when I was working at Aldy, we were having a party. Let me tell you, there ain't no party like an ILL party. (ILL meaning InterLibrary Loan. Not ill as in sick.) Most of the people in my office love cooking/baking, so any excuse to bring things in is acceptable. Today we were celebrating three of the student workers' birthdays that have happened over the past week and a half, so there was a TON of food. 


Among this food were a couple of olive related products. 
I was fine. I could handle it. 


Then the container of dip was opened.
The container of olive dip.


I won't lie. I tried it. Because I didn't know it was composed of olives.


Needless to say, I didn't enjoy it. But I didn't make a big deal about it. 
Then I noticed something else.


The smell.


Have you ever smelled an olive? Or olive based dip? It stays with you. It didn't matter that I shut the container of dip. It didn't matter that I moved it a little further from my work station. I could still smell it. And I'm not going to lie, I'm a little bit paranoid that I now smell like olives but just can't tell. 


Natasha says I don't. 


But still.


Add some sass to your (let's keep this an olive free zone of) class,
Jenna

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