temptation i'm @ work right now and a clean air advocacy group just sent my colleague a box of truffle chocolates.

before guilt and dismay assailed me i grabbed one - i had a long night last night and got up from my computer to walk around the room for a bit to shake my drowsiness. i wandered to the free-for-all table and there were four pieces of chocolate waiting for me in its heart-shaped box.

then i wandered to my own mailbox and, lo! sticking out was a red <3-shaped box of my own.

all for me. sent by the same group.

before i could think evil plots to hoard the stash of russell stover truffles, i marched to the free-for-all table and unwrapped the red cellophane. tore loose the gold ribbon. scanned the brief press release. announced to the nearest staffer my secret hoard. "i gave up chocolate for lent - it was either chocolate or caffeine," she dejectedly said but smiling, and before i could lay down the box's cover there another staffer waited, concerned and curious and ready for a truffle.

the power of chocolate. mmmmm.  ¶ 2/10/2005 03:32:00 PM