We're fresh out of love, but there may be scandal and we certainly have sugar. Bring your own cup, please!

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) "Love in Several Masques"

Had a terrible week (and it's not even over yet)? Is your New Year off to a lousy start? Worry not, friends, we've got you covered. Tea and biscuits will be served at 16:00, restaurant level of Center Building. You will still have problems, but hey, at least you can also have tea.

We had a kettle; we let it leak:

Our not repairing made it worse.

We haven't had any tea for a week...

The bottom is out of the Universe.

-- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) "Natural Theology"

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Teatime at 16:00, Level B Center Building

We do not suggest you throw your tea into the East China Sea. Instead, drink it and have some cookies.

The Boston Tea Party, as described by Mr. Dawes Jr. in Mary Poppins (1964):

Mr. Dawes Jr: In seventeen hundred & seventy three, An official of this bank unwisely loaned a large sum of money to finance a shipment of tea to the American Colonies... Do you know what happened?

George W. Banks: Yes sir, yes I think I do. As the ship lay in Boston harbor, a party of colonists, dressed as Red Indians, boarded the vessel, behaved rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking — even for Americans!

Join us for teatime at 16:00, Thursday, Restaurant Level of Center Building. Please bring your own tea-holding vessel.

(Image: Flickr/Tom Simpson)

Coffee and sweets with your Friendly OIST IT Department

OIST OCEAN Store will start to interface purchasing data with HEART. You will be able to see the budget execution status on budget report of HEART on the next business day.
Also, the workflows on HEART will be synchronized with OCEAN. If you are an OCEAN user, and purchase related tiles are not displayed on your top page of HEART, please submit HEART Fin User Authorization Request by Thursday, September 28.

“Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
                                                                                                 

                                                                                         Neil Gaiman

Well unless you have actually completed that Doomsday Device, this week you do not have that kind of choice so you should just join everyone for tea, coffee and cookies at 16:00 on Thursday!

"I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time."      

                                                                             Rev. Sydney Smith

Please do not activate any Doomsday Device or Killer AI Program prior to 16:00 on Thursday until we all have had our tea, coffee and cookies, please. If you would be so kind to wait after the long weekend too, we would all be grateful. 

Let's join together in the restaurant area of level B for comforting beverages, cakes and company!

"If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."

                                                                           Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea

Come fill yourself with tea, coffee and free cookies before coming back to marvel at the beauty of your experiments and the truth behind your hypothesis!

As usual, the teatime takes place in the restaurant area on level B of the Central Building, starting at 16:00.