A few brief and banal remarks about caffeine
I’m not the same guy I was six months ago. I’m not the same guy at all. I’m busier and lazier at the same time.
My day starts at 5:30 a.m. and ends, that is the work/school part, at around 7:00 p.m. if you average it out. Some days I have no time to eat. Last week, in a perfect daze, I walked into a tree I am passing my classes by sheer will and luck, a 3.8 average thank you very fucking much, but like every roller derby queen eventually I’m gonna catch an elbow to the face and down I will go.
I live on double espressos, two shots with 12 packets of sugar, three times a day. Anything fancier would have milk in it and that would slow me down and at some point in the three or four swallows there is a double shot, you didn’t think I was sipping, this sensation hits me like lightening through my nervous system and my whole body shivers.
Everything before that moment is non-verbal darkness and cold and everything afterward is explosive jabbering light, 12 non stop hours with a monkey bouncing around in my head, and God forbid you talk to me cuz that monkey’s coming out and once he’s out baby…
More on lazy when the buzzing in my ears stops.
A note, maybe even science:
This morning I had a double espresso with 12 packets of sugar and the buzz asted maybe 45 minutes but this afternoon I had a double with 6 packets of sugar and this evening I'm still twitching. Sugar may in fact reduce or cancel out the effects of caffeine.
My day starts at 5:30 a.m. and ends, that is the work/school part, at around 7:00 p.m. if you average it out. Some days I have no time to eat. Last week, in a perfect daze, I walked into a tree I am passing my classes by sheer will and luck, a 3.8 average thank you very fucking much, but like every roller derby queen eventually I’m gonna catch an elbow to the face and down I will go.
I live on double espressos, two shots with 12 packets of sugar, three times a day. Anything fancier would have milk in it and that would slow me down and at some point in the three or four swallows there is a double shot, you didn’t think I was sipping, this sensation hits me like lightening through my nervous system and my whole body shivers.
Everything before that moment is non-verbal darkness and cold and everything afterward is explosive jabbering light, 12 non stop hours with a monkey bouncing around in my head, and God forbid you talk to me cuz that monkey’s coming out and once he’s out baby…
More on lazy when the buzzing in my ears stops.
A note, maybe even science:
This morning I had a double espresso with 12 packets of sugar and the buzz asted maybe 45 minutes but this afternoon I had a double with 6 packets of sugar and this evening I'm still twitching. Sugar may in fact reduce or cancel out the effects of caffeine.
posted by Mike at 8:48 AM
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