Comments on: Caffeine

By: No Sharp Edges

No Sharp Edges — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:13:41 +0000

Heh…same here with the forgetting, except my itty bitty BA is in music.
I can tell you what year Mozart was born and what year he died, and the same for Beethoven.
And that’s about it.
(And yet I still have years to go before my student loan is paid in full…)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:06:42 +0000

Hee… same as some others with the “Yes! I am a woman of letters!” line. Yeah, got the English degree (itty bitty BA here as well), cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa… and don’t even bother to ask me who Gilgamesh’s good buddy was, because like I can remember back that far?

And the caffeine… goodness, the caffeine! I can’t tell you what I’d be like without it, because this house is NEVER without. They will pry my Diet Coke from my cold, dead fingers.

By: jilliandunham

jilliandunham — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:24:42 +0000

Ha!
(Not about the coffee, but about the “Yes! I am a woman of letters!” line. I’m so with you there, obviously.
L, J
PS Down with the moral judgment of Harry Potter readers AND people who forget the plot details of One Hundred Years of Solitude!

By: pearlandopal

pearlandopal — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:23:06 +0000

I’m a total caffeine addict. I’m not much on coffee, but I love my sodas. Unfortunately, combined with my genetically extremely soft teeth, it’s giving me major dental issues. I’ve tried the black tea route, and the sweet tea route (I’m a Southern girl, what can I say?), and the coffee route, but I just can’t break away from my delicious morning bubblies.

Drives my mom crazy; she likes to give me lectures about addiction. I like to tell her that at least I only have one addiction, and it’s both legal and only mildly unhealthy.

By: Tanglethis

Tanglethis — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:04:45 +0000

I also found that weaning myself from coffee using black tea helped me manage caffeine withdrawal much better. I’ve never been a five-cups-a-day kind of girl except while writing a seminar paper, but I do need that one crucial one in the morning and sometimes one in the midafternoon to keep me going. Black tea packs a pretty decent amount of caffeine so it suffices for either WakeMeUp Slot, it’s less expensive, and as NameChanged said, it’s easier to miss.

By: Fillyjonk

Fillyjonk — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:21:41 +0000

All you need to remember is that Henry James sucks and D.H. Lawrence sucks worse. Secretly Laura hates all modernist novelists. (Not so secretly, I guess. Actually, I checked and what she said was “all British modernist novelists except Woolf,” so that’s probably more accurate.)

By: PortlyDyke

PortlyDyke — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:46:22 +0000

“*I mean, besides the calories I’m underreporting because I’m a big, fat liar.”

Cracked me up, Kate!

By: NameChanged

NameChanged — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:26:01 +0000

I went off coffee a few years back (to save on calories, but continued to gain weight). I used to get major headaches and grumpiness. Now I do tea, and it is not nearly as dramatic if I miss my morning beverage.

Just a suggestion for those in the mood for fewer side effects.

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:26:10 +0000

I used to retain all sorts of things from books and movies. Then I turned forty. And that was six years ago. My brain, she a sieve. You cannot believe how hard it is to do my weekly movie quiz. I decide to include a movie I’ve seen in the quiz, and then I realize I cannot recall ONE scene from it to describe as a clue. I go through a list of fifty or more movies to get my seven a week.

But Caffeine Is Good. Caffeine Is Your Friend. Praise Caffeina, Goddess of Alertness! Hail Her Mighty Java Goodness!

By: Bitty

Bitty — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:26:03 +0000

When my mother came to my son’s wedding, she had to go to bed early because she had a headache that was killing her.

The next morning when she got up, she had a cup of coffee, and (what Roberta said). Between the traveling and the fact that no coffee was served at the wedding (cookout reception), she’d had no coffee since breakfast.

We only saw her that one night because she had to go home early in the morning, and thanks to the headache, we really didn’t even see her then. So sad. Coffee people, don’t skip your coffee!