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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Ahhh... Caffeine

Yesterday, I relearned a very important lesson. Too much caffeine makes me manic.

Now, I don't mean actual, clinical mania. I mean way-too-excited-can't-sleep-forgot-to-eat-dinner-talking-too-fast manic. It wasn't until after a rather high-speed conversation with J., during which I talked his ear off for about 30 minutes, despite the fact that he told me that he'd had an 11-hour workday, that I realized that I had suddenly turned a little freaky. Then I took an accounting:

I had consumed
one mug black tea
one medium to-go cup of green tea (with mint, if you must know)
one cup of coffee, with three tiny creams and one teaspoon of sugar
one very large Coke.

In other words--I had hit the motherlode of caffeine in an attempt to get myself past feelings of sluggishness and regret about the beginning of another semester of school.

I realized that something was wrong when I turned mildly freaky in the conversation with over-worked J. (who was probably a bit mystified by my emphatic commentary regarding the internet page I found with slanderous remarks about several of my teachers by a rather disturbed former classmate). I realized just how amped-up I was, though, when I couldn't sleep until after 2 am.

I guess it's back to my usual herbal tea and the occasional single cup of coffee. And no more soda!! Even if I want to crawl back into bed. Right now.

1 Comments:

  • What an amusing picture you paint. I can "see" you and J's reaction to you... :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:12 AM  

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