Cilantro tastes like a sharp, almost-spicy version of parsley. I'll take Sophia's share in exchange for my share of tomato chunks, dill pickles, mushrooms, okra, cooked broccoli, cooked cauliflower....

My tastebuds are most sensitive (in a bad way) to tomato chunks. They're incredibly bitter. Yet, oddly enough, I'm fine with ketchup and most tomato-based spaghetti sauces.

I gotta remember not to put bitter despair in your brownies.

Normally I'm all your bitter are belong to me, but it's disappointing when they ruin perfectly good chocolate with something that tastes so terrible I will spit it out and claw at my tongue.

I have very sensitive tastebuds, but neither walnuts nor cilantro set me off.

Well, this article, at least, holds that sensitive tastebuds are the key to likeing it: [link]

I'd try to figure out a way to post some kind of public calendar charting workflow for yourself, so people can see what you're doing and also make clear when it disappears into her orbit.

This is a great suggestion. Frame it as "hey, we've got a really complicated workflow at this company and wouldn't it be great if we could track projects through to their completion?" Something like Sharepoint or Job Tracker might be able to help you if your company has those implemented already.

The lying to clients thing is what strikes me as the most egregious - surely if a client complained about this, the higher-ups would have to take notice, right?

I have very particular tastes in beer that don't seem to conform to anything -- I know that I like Killian's Irish Red, and Yuengling is OK, and I hate the taste of every IPA I've ever tried.

Well, if you have an issue with bitter tastes, than IPAs and many straight up pale ales will not work for you due to the hops presence. Red ales tend to be maltier, and I believe Yuengling is a lager, so it's going to have a much more mellow hoppiness, if any at all. Your beer tastes actually seem to be consistent with your aversion to bitter flavors.

I love cilantro, but I'm a super-taster with most bitter tastes.

That article, at least, says that being a supertaster only involves bitter tastes and testing shows it doesn't apply to cilantro at all.

I have very particular tastes in beer that don't seem to conform to anything -- I know that I like Killian's Irish Red, and Yuengling is OK, and I hate the taste of every IPA I've ever tried.

Now that I am thinking about it, beer kind of tastes like soap to me as well. The only beer I like is Corona.

Things that really annoy me today:

• My new boss telling a coworker that I have to do something instead of telling me directly.
• The Peruvian pan-pipe band right outside my building.
• Users asking stupid questions that require me to scroll down ten pages in the email chain to get the details.

Very sad about Johnathan Rhys Myers.

I'd try to figure out a way to post some kind of public calendar charting workflow for yourself, so people can see what you're doing and also make clear when it disappears into her orbit.

I was going to suggest something similar that outlines everyone's responsibilities for different aspects of the project, and have it approved by your bosses. It could also include target time frames for completion of each aspect of the project, so people can see that if she's taking 6 months to do something when it should take a month, she's the roadblock.

I love cilantro but dislike parsley, so I never describe it as parsley-like. Parsley has no taste to me.

Walnuts are the taste of sweet earthy love.

I am in my own work hell, but I have a three day weekend starting in just over an hour, so I am trying to let it all fall away.

Users asking stupid questions that require me to scroll down ten pages in the email chain to get the details.

I have this one too! Well, mine are "clients" not "users" but still. Copy-paste, people!