Glad to be back home...

[alexpgp]

It has been one of those certifiably crazy Fridays.

After making sure that incoming assignments were not critical and not expected back today, I joined Galina in an odyssey to finalize the renting of the daughter's house. This should not have taken as long as it did, but it did. We got back home at nearly 6 pm, and all I wanted to do was to lie down and take a nap, but that's not really a feasible alternative at that time of day.

So, I drank a cup of coffee shortly after returning home (not that the caffeine really affects me, one way or another—I suspect any "stay-up" quality is more suggestive than anything else), and have stumbled along in front of an unbelievably vapid program on something-or-other until just a few minutes ago, when I figured I could better spend my time filing navel lint, should there be any to be found in my vicinity

It will be a working weekend, so it was good to get some "free" time in today.

Cheers...

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I am the opposite of you when it comes to caffeine. Should I have a late breakfast on a Sunday morning, say about 9 a.m. and be so foolish or so bold as to have a second cuppa, I will actually WAKE up at 2 a.m. that night, and stay awake, thanks to the coffee. I generally follow a fairly strict policy of having one strong cup of coffee every morning at about 7 a.m. simply to keep myself more or less accustomed to caffeine. But it tends to react waaay later than it does for most normal people. You might think this is odd, but I have learned in recent years that my dad and at least one brother also react in this way. It's a shame, because I really enjoy coffee, especially STRONG coffee.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Yes, this sounds unusual even if it runs in your family.

Caffeine does not really help me stay awake either, so I sometimes drink it for the taste, but not too much, because two coups on an empty stomach make me queasy.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

There was one night in college when I thought I would do what so many students do: drink coffee and stay up most of the night studying.

Bad idea. I ended up being tired AND wired at the same time. When it was time to go to sleep, of course I couldn't. Net result: completely unsuccessful.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Tired AND wired is exactly how I felt after the two cups. Luckily for me, it started about half an hour after leaving the coffee shop and only lasted about an hour after that.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Speaking of college, I recall a night I sat down to study something grueling—I seem to recall it was fluid mechanics—with some, er, chemical aid provided by a pre-med friend of mine. The aid, which had worked so well for me for an electrical final the year before, failed me, because when I took a short break to take a few breaths and clear the fog from my brain (the Bernoulli equation may be useful, but it's also a bitch), I. Fell. Asleep.

I passed the test, though, which probably kept me from traveling further down the road to iniquity and sin.

Cheers...

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

Coffee has no actual wake up effect on me. It just warms me. The act of making it wakes me up, but the drink, not so much. Now espresso.....different story. AW