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tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-05-10 04:12 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-05-10 04:12 pm
say it with me... trimethylxanthine is your friend...
Newsflash: caffeine wears off rather suddenly, and you do NOT want to find this out when you're driving on a busy road after pulling an all-nighter. One second chattering happily away to mom, the next my mind slips into automatic and I'm in a video game just barely managing to consciously control the car. Almost ran a red light at a busy intersection. Not good.
I have an odd aversion to carbonated beverages and can't stand coffee, so I almost never get any caffeine in me. Then I need to stay up all night, I pop a No-Doze, and my body just completely freaks out. Alertness is a good thing, but in the case of caffeine it's usually accompanied by faint nausea, twitching, and going completely manic instead of just being awake. The worst was Russian class; the alertness hadn't kicked in yet, just 'stay-awake' and 'twitchy,' so as we watched this video on Russian history I just sank into a sort of torpor, unable to sleep, but kept twitching and spasming, especially when the guys on the TV started talking loudly. And by the next class I was fiendishly awake and scribbling frantically in my notebook, anything that came to mind, story fragments, song lyrics, anything, just to keep writing. Caffeine does very odd things to me.
Now I've rested a bit, eaten a bit, and I feel much better. Except at the thought of what my English teacher will give me on that godawful excuse for a short story I just turned in today.
I have an odd aversion to carbonated beverages and can't stand coffee, so I almost never get any caffeine in me. Then I need to stay up all night, I pop a No-Doze, and my body just completely freaks out. Alertness is a good thing, but in the case of caffeine it's usually accompanied by faint nausea, twitching, and going completely manic instead of just being awake. The worst was Russian class; the alertness hadn't kicked in yet, just 'stay-awake' and 'twitchy,' so as we watched this video on Russian history I just sank into a sort of torpor, unable to sleep, but kept twitching and spasming, especially when the guys on the TV started talking loudly. And by the next class I was fiendishly awake and scribbling frantically in my notebook, anything that came to mind, story fragments, song lyrics, anything, just to keep writing. Caffeine does very odd things to me.
Now I've rested a bit, eaten a bit, and I feel much better. Except at the thought of what my English teacher will give me on that godawful excuse for a short story I just turned in today.