Coffee, Cola, Cosine.
I'm feeling rather jittery right now and I have been all day, presumably from the two coffees that I drank (almost 10 hours ago). On a completely unrelated note, caffeine definitely _is_ a drug.
It's really funny too, because drinking coffee is a socially acceptable and legal thing to do almost anywhere. If you showed up to work/class with an open bottle of Honey Brown in hand you probably wouldn't be very surprised when you got fired/suspended, yet you can drink coffee all through work/class and no one will even look at you twice. I think it's all a matter of dosage - people just don't usually binge on caffeine as much as they do with alcohol. (Maybe people prefer hangovers to caffeine headaches and restlessness?)
Once when I was in high school I drank a 20oz bottle of Coke at lunch followed immediately by a 2 liter bottle during 5th period. Yes, the whole thing. That's 88 ounces of caffeinated, sugary, acidic, obesity-causing liquid goodness if I've done my math right.
When it kicked in, I was more excited than a nine year old boy with A.D.D. and a handful of fireworks, and everything, no matter how mundane, instantly became hilarious. The Spanish-American war was amusing, Don Quixote was uproariously funny, and complementary angles just made me completely hysterical. 6th period trigonometry went from being "a study of triangles" to being "completely-fucking-hilarious-oh-my-god-stop-I-can't-breathe". It's a good thing there were school buses in those days, because I wouldn't have trusted myself to drive or operate machinery.
I remember my trig teacher - he was funny even on normal days when I wasn't completely bouncing off the walls in a giggling whirlwind of caffeine-induced elation. He was an older guy, with an acute grasp of mathematics complemented by a squirrely-eyed appearance, a sloping forehead, and a haircut that made him look like some sort of mad scientist. The hilariousness of his facial expression was paralleled only by the strangeness of his mannerisms.
But anyway, I seem to be getting off on a tangent.
So I guess I'll stop right here.
It's really funny too, because drinking coffee is a socially acceptable and legal thing to do almost anywhere. If you showed up to work/class with an open bottle of Honey Brown in hand you probably wouldn't be very surprised when you got fired/suspended, yet you can drink coffee all through work/class and no one will even look at you twice. I think it's all a matter of dosage - people just don't usually binge on caffeine as much as they do with alcohol. (Maybe people prefer hangovers to caffeine headaches and restlessness?)
Once when I was in high school I drank a 20oz bottle of Coke at lunch followed immediately by a 2 liter bottle during 5th period. Yes, the whole thing. That's 88 ounces of caffeinated, sugary, acidic, obesity-causing liquid goodness if I've done my math right.
When it kicked in, I was more excited than a nine year old boy with A.D.D. and a handful of fireworks, and everything, no matter how mundane, instantly became hilarious. The Spanish-American war was amusing, Don Quixote was uproariously funny, and complementary angles just made me completely hysterical. 6th period trigonometry went from being "a study of triangles" to being "completely-fucking-hilarious-oh-my-god-stop-I-can't-breathe". It's a good thing there were school buses in those days, because I wouldn't have trusted myself to drive or operate machinery.
I remember my trig teacher - he was funny even on normal days when I wasn't completely bouncing off the walls in a giggling whirlwind of caffeine-induced elation. He was an older guy, with an acute grasp of mathematics complemented by a squirrely-eyed appearance, a sloping forehead, and a haircut that made him look like some sort of mad scientist. The hilariousness of his facial expression was paralleled only by the strangeness of his mannerisms.
But anyway, I seem to be getting off on a tangent.
So I guess I'll stop right here.
posted by jester at 1:15 AM
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