Black gold

Today was a pretty good day, complete with patches of bad.

I told you about my sunrise viewing, my coffee shop chilling, and my workout ambitions.  What more could there be, right?  Well, you are right, there isn’t much else.  So instead, let me tell you about my relationship with coffee.

Coffee is something I try to stay away from.  I have no tolerance for it.  It give me the shakes, often the sweats, and usually makes me feel really anxious when it starts to wear off.  A curious set of symptoms for a beverage that millions of people guzzle daily, but for me it’s the unfortunate reality.  For this reason I try to rely on naps to get me through a bout of sleepiness.  The thing is, there are some things about the way coffee makes me feel that I like.

It makes me feel like dancing, and in that sense it’s a little bit like booze.  Not full out foot frenzy, but certainly rhythmic stepping with some foot shuffle.  For a while it’s great, I’m feeling jacked up and slightly less inhibited.  Then it goes to my stomach.  Caffeine, as the Wiki will tell you, is a diuretic.  Steady users will quickly find that their body builds up immunity to these side effects, but infrequent users, I assure you, are not spared.

Furthermore, when it starts wearing off, and this should really be enough to convince me to stay away from it, I start feeling really anxious.  I’ll get stressed out and I won’t really be able to tell why. 

After downing the large coffee I got at Higher Grounds I experienced all of these problems.  These are those patches of bad I referred to earlier. 

I went to play squash with Jerry tonight from about 6:30 to 8:00 and I was able to wear off the caffeinated feeling that had plagued me most of the day.  Time to learn my lesson.  I think I’ll stick to tea from now on.

On another note, this is my 50^th post on this blog.  Hurray for me!  I’m actually writing with consistency, and, though I don’t always feel like I have a lot to say, the steady amount of daily visits keeps me motivated.  Over the past couple of weeks the site has received an average of just under 19 visits a day.  That’s certainly nothing huge, but for me it’s plenty to keep me going. 

So here’s a big thank you to all of you for your interest and continued patronage.  They say “a writer writes”, so thank you all for giving me that little push to keep me doing what I want to be doing.

Comments

[Mom]

I certainly enjoy your anecdotes about life! As for me, coffee is a brace - rich, dark, and gratifying!

[Teira]

You might consider trying an espresso based coffee next time. At least for me I find I can't usually drink brewed coffee because of the side effects, quite similar to yours, but when I drink a latte or an americano I don't get them, and I do get woken up, which is nice.
Nice work with the blog, I do enjoy that it is updated frequently.

[gs]

Genetics. At my age, the same still happens to me.