Bistr-OLL

Do you eat lunch at your desk? Unfortunately, I do. Or, I should say, did. I used to keep working right on through lunch, thus forgoing the 30 minutes of rest from eye-strain and brain-hurt-y thinking that's so necessary for digestion and sanity. Eating at my desk was a bad habit only partially born of not having a better place to eat. Let me explain:[[MORE]]

We have a conference room, but it's the only closed-door room in the whole office (other than the storage closet… or the bathroom), so meetings and phone calls take precedence over chewing and swallowing.

We also have an outdoor seating area by the garbage and recycle bins that is lovely on a warm, sunny day (unlike the one pictured. Wet to quite wet!). Lately our chairs have been migrating into our next door neighbors' office. Like… all of them. And we don't know why.

I've eaten in our window wells at one of the student desks displayed there. But passersby have a totally reasonable inclination to look in the windows as they stroll—surely it has nothing to do with the man doll and stuffed llama. But an audience at lunchtime is a little unnerving to me. Like a command eating performance.

So I did a little hunting around on Craigslist and found a charming little table for a bargain price, and brought it in to occupy the kitchen space otherwise filled with our water jugs.

Voila! A lunch nook is born.

Gone are the excuses; no more email-checking and mindless interwebs searching while I eat. All we need now are a few chairs and a little bit of decorating…

How do you lunch at work? And what should we hang on the walls of our office cafe corner?