my precious....kimchi

artist's rendition of 11:30 am at the lunch fridge

This stick figure cartoon depicts the Gollum-like state I'm reduced to when Yuki gives me a jar of of her delicious home made kimchi.  It's so good!! I just gotta have some, especially when my lunch is boring white rice (I'm a bad Asian, I'm only so-so on the topic of rice...but I argue that eating it with kimchi completely redeems my Asianness). 

Unfortunately not everyone loves kimchi (what is WRONG with you people?), namely, my officemate.  He has banned me from having it in the office at all since that one time I opened up my lunch to eat at my desk and he started crying and coughing because of the fumes.  Granted, I understand the smell and taste is not for everyone, but I've never EVER seen a reaction like that before.  However for the purposes of office peace, I keep a jar down the hall in the fridge... and promised never to open up a container around that coworker again.  (P.S. Wuss.)

Um, this does have the side effect of me gobbling down a few furtive pieces every now and again, and in the hopes of not offending anyone else I do it really fast and kind of hidden-like when no one else is around.  This is probably where office urban legends come from, but so far, no passive aggressive notes to keep the kimchi out of the workplace!