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Today, I have become close and intimate friends with the meeting room. I'm just saying. The sad thing is that I'm actually actively excited that our meetings tomorrow are in a different room. I think it might even have a view! Shhhh don't tell.

ANYWAY.

It's the end of the month, which means it's time for a hastily scribbled TEA ROUND-UP. (Those of you in the sweltering heat, pretend I said "iced tea round-up", ok? Good.)

So, please, tell me if you haven't received your tea for April/May (meaning, tea in the last 6 weeks or so). Let me know if you want to drop out, or if you want to join us (the poll for addresses etc. is here). Address changed? Tell me that. If the guilt finally got to you and you juuuust sent your tea, feel free to tell me that too, if you like, so that I don't come tracking you down. Because I will. (Just not right this minute, because I'm running off to another quick meeting (lord save us all)). Or e-mail me with any of these things, if you prefer, at listersgirl[at]gmail[dot]com.

And tomorrow it's June! And the 1 year anniversary of the tea exchange!

*throws party*

I'll try to get new names out to you all over the weekend, ok?

Meanwhile, I am the proud owner of a list of all my teas, with room for comments. Shut up. And I've made 4 different kinds of iced tea in the past 1 1/2 weeks (last night's, which I haven't tried yet, was Japanese Sour Cherry green tea from Silk Road). Mmmm, tea.

Ok, running. Hope you all are having lovely days! Someone would tell me if we'd been invaded by aliens or it had become perpetual night, right?

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I haven't sent mine yet. I keep forgetting. I'm a lo-hoo-hoo-ser.

I have it boxed up and everything.

My address has changed; I'll send it to you in an e-mail.

Yay, new place!

I'd suggest mailing it before you move, or else you will never find it again (says she who speaks from experience). ;)

I haven't sent mine yet...*bows head in shame*

It WILL get sent this week, I promise!!!

I haven't gotten mine, but it serves me right for how bad I am at sending things out myself. No impatience here. :)

Go you.

I hope your new place will have a shelf (or two, or three) dedicated to tea!

I haven't sent mine yet, but it's on my list of stuff to do on Friday.

I haven't received mine yet, but it might be coming from one of the people above who haven't sent yet. :) I sent mine a few weeks ago & it has been received.

I will be moving in the middle of this tea exchange so I think it would be easiest if I sat this one out. I will send you the new address for August/September.

I mailed my package, but not until last Thursday, so according to what the Post Office told me she should be getting it sometime between now and next week.

Haven't mailed due to burns on currently-unusable left hand. Unlike typing, I can't package tea one-handed. Will mail when healed.

Sounds good - good luck with your move!

I haven't gotten mine yet, for this round or the last.. and I haven't sent mine out for this round yet. Tomorrow, it shall be DONE!!

I just got mine yesterday--hooray!

Mmm, iced tea. I'm going to make some right now--what to choose? I have 20 kinds of freaking tea! LOVE!

I have not received my tea for this round and tho' I am not at home the powers that be have informed me that no such tea has arrived. Boooooo,

I sent my packet out late thursday night aka early friday morning, so it's running late.

I'm pretty sure I sent mine, but I'm out for next time. It's been fun, but I can't keep up.

Sent mine last week, so it should be getting there soon. I haven't gotten any tea this month. Going to have to opt out for the next cycle, the pantry is running out of room!

I understand that completely!

I got tea and sent tea!

I am also emailing a new address. YAY!

oops. That was me.

Do not fear!! It shall arrive.

Don't fret! I have confirmation that your tea was sent a while ago and is probably just making its slow way across the water. :)

Oh, I'm not worried, I know international mail can be slow. :)

Got tea and sent tea. I'm going to need another cupboard! :-)

Hurray! Well, for the tea, not for the overflowing cupboard.

It arrived! Today! With a notice telling me I have to go to the dentist, no less. Some mail is just better than other mail.

Thank-you so much for tea all the way from India. Very impressive! I have an ignorance-based question. When I made the tea in a pot on the stove it smelled delicious and when I added a drop of honey it, in fact, tasted delicious. But what's with all the bits? This has happened to me before with tea from India and I don't know how to deal with the bits. Do I drink them? Do I let them settle at the bottom of the cup and then just leave them? Do I need some sort of device? Help!

Also, are you guys going to Clinton? I'm trying to gauge just exactly how much fun I will be having. ;)

No Clinton for me! I have signed up to go to hippie-camp with some friends that have been trying to convince me to go for about five years. J might be at Clinton, or he might decide to have a long weekend at home.

Generally, other people made tea for us in India, so I'm not sure how it worked! I let the tea settle, and pour the bottom through a sieve. I'm glad you like it! I bought it in a little town in the Ghats, the major mountain range seperating Kerala and Tamil Nadu in south India. We drove through the high-elevation tea plantations, and smelled the fresh green tea growing there. The tea masala was blended by the family we bought it from.. they buy the spices in an auction in town.