Not So Shocking

Well, so much for shocking the system into quitting something. Apparently the little coffee demon I tried to kill over the July 4th holiday weekend survived. That little fork wielding bastard made me drink half a pot of coffee on Friday. How quickly frank the coffee tank shows his head again. Half a pot? what was I thinking? It wasn't 2am and I wasn't studying for a final for the class I never went to! It was noon on an unemployed Friday (yes I won't let you forget that I don't work, more on this later--I promise). Although, I am happy to report that I have not had any cafe since my digression on Friday. I guess the moral of the story is that the shock doctrine will only allow you to alter behaviors in incremental ways, nothing so fundamental as denying the caffeine jones.

On an aside, it is a bad idea to go to the gym after drinking half a pot of coffee. Anyone ever get the shakes from too much caffeine? No, just me? well try harder. I assure you that it is not a good idea to place large metal objects over my amphetamine riddled brain repeatedly while your arms and legs are doing their impressions of grandma's vibrator.

Then there is also the added bonus of just being too amped to do anything.

“Holy shit lets do that, no that, what about this, oh that looks fun!”

And now you’re there for 2 hours and nothing has been accomplished save the endangerment of your life. I can swear to you that my heart hurt when I left. Good thing when I left I was able to calm myself down with an evening of b movies, bars, bad cover bands, and uhhh, beer. Actually that's a lie. There was nothing calming about the band I saw--they sucked. As friend put it, "This cover band makes me want to cover this whole bar with napalm."