My Tai

My co-worker, Angie, and I have started our very own "Roger Room Thursdays". Once the clock strikes 6pm we hurry along to finish sending out emails and make those final edits to reports. Then we head down to the Roger Room bar downstairs. We have our own stools at the end of the bar. We can't enough of all the badass bartenders and bar-backs. And we have our usual drinks to decompress. If you haven't been to the Roger Room I strongly urge that you visit it one night. Preferably a weekday. Order one of their signature drinks and you'll be hooked! Okay, this is starting to sound like one of my Yelp reviews...

Tai, one of the bartenders, had slipped away this past Thursday so I figured he was on his dinner break. He comes back in later in the evening and I wrap my arms around him, asking what he had for dinner. Tai actually skipped dinner, letting me know that he was a bit under the weather, so he just sat in his car and read during his break. You know my ears perked at hearing this!

Tai is currently reading The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. He had avoided reading it for years but he is liking it so far. "Our dilemma as humans is that we are trying too hard to capture words."


Another book that he recently read is "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. I got super excited because this happens to be the next book we're reading for book club AND I had heard all about this book on NPR one morning. I was eager to find out what he thought of it so far. "This book is extremely interesting! I never knew about this book then read the liner notes in a bookstore. I bought it on the spot because it sounded fascinating. I also read and article about it in the New York Times. All the present day implications...there are so many things in the book that are so relevant today. It's definitely an easy read." He might lend the book to his friend but if not he says I am welcome to borrow it. (Yay!)

I love this photo of Henrietta Lacks

Tai tells me that he always has a book in his car. "You just never know where you'll end up so a book will always come in handy."

Favorite book? The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. Tai was practically appalled when I told him I had never read it. "It's a great book! Go out and get a copy now!"