say it with me... trimethylxanthine is your friend...

[tenlittlebullets]

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.

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[coryrain.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh No-Doze, the breakfast of champions. A friend of mine convinced me it would be a great idea to take some of that, drink two cans of Coke and then go to the club one night. I've never danced that much in my life. Unfortunatly I spent the next two days sleeping through all of my classes.
*laughs*
good times, good times.

[togetherxdecay.livejournal.com]

Yay for Atari Teenage Riot! They are really cool!

Caffine is weird though. I don't like it much, but I find Iced Tea addictive. Unfortunately, caffine turns me into even more of an insomniac then I already am. My doctor told me that the reason I'm always tired is because I never really sleep even I am sleeping. So I really don't need caffine to keep me up consiously. You know, "when you have insomnia you're never really asleep and you're never really awake." That's me. I am Jack's cold sweat.

Miss you.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

ATR are fuckin' weird, but they're fun to listen to anyway. =D

I have massive amounts of what I hereby dub sleep inertia--unless I'm really sleep-deprived, I tend to want to stay awake a lot, but if I've just woken up it takes me forever to attain any semblance of consciousness. So this morning I overslept, missed the bus, figured I'd just drive myself to school, then promptly went back to sleep and wound up being fifteen minutes late. Oops.

[duck-killer.livejournal.com]

::wishes she had had her coffee this morning::

If I would have remembered caffeine, I would've NOT worn my trenchcoat on Awards Day....

I got two awards, and had to walk allllllllllllll the way down the bleachers, aaaaaaaaallllllllllllll the way to the award thingy, and way back up to my seat.... twice. Whilst tripping over my trench.

So, yay for caffeine.