Caffeine

Since it is morning, I thought I would do a little segment on caffeine. Coffee has to be one the biggest industries. I don't know exact numbers, but it seems like everyone in the planet drinks the stuff. Even tea counts. In my opinion, tea is kind of a half-assed way to get a caffeine buzz. It's for the people who don't have the grit to drink the real stuff, coffee. But anyway, still counts I guess. For some people, coffee is just part of the routine. They would be awake whether or not they had any caffeine at all. It's the cup in their hand that gets them going. For others, they are the living dead, or just dead, until they get a cup of coffee. For others it's more a social thing to do to get their coffee in the morning. Whatever category people fit into, it's a prevalent part of pretty much anyone's life at pretty much any point in the day. For me, after I grudgingly roll, or fall on some mornings, out of bed, (in the 9's these days be proud), I usually have a cup of coffee. When I was in school, it was a pretty necessary part of my day, since college usually only a lots a student about 5 hours of sleep and anyone who knows me knows I don't function and am not pleasant on anything under 8. Now I only work in the evenings, so that leaves my day to cleaning, errands, homework for only one class, which is a lot more than most would think, thank god I'm only taking one right now. Anyway, coffee for me is just a routine right now. But then there is what coffee does to people. For me, it changes, depending on what I need it to do for me. For others, it can either calm someone to a level they need to get stuff done, pick them up to the point of a crazy person hopped up on extreme energy, can give headaches to those who don't regularly drink it, or it can have no effect. I used to be in the category of no effect. Until about two months ago.

If I have more than one cup of coffee in the morning, I become the Dubstep version of myself. I kid you not, do not get in my way. I will bulldoze you if you aren't going fast enough. My laugh changes into this demonic crazy version that my kids squirm away from. I get these hand motions when I talk that look like my mother on crack. I mean watch out. Cause limbs be flying everywhere. My movements become all spazzy and weird and like I am in a Lady Gaga video that skips. It just isn't a pretty sight sometimes, but if I need two cups of coffee, it usually helps me accomplish whatever it is that needed to be done. I feel like I would make a good assistant to some high powered CEO who is always needing things. But only that version of myself, the other version of myself would probably tell said CEO to F off and get his/her own cup of coffee.

But I think of what caffeine does to me because I like watching what it does to other people. In my friend Meghan's case, she gets kind of hyper and thinks she feels really weird. See her twitter page for that reference. ;) For my friend Addison, its like a part of her. If she doesn't get her coffee and scone in the morning, her whole day would be thrown off. For my sister, if she isn't too lazy, instant coffee does the job. But this is mostly because she is too lazy to actually make a pot of coffee. See a theme with her?

Caffeine is such a funny thing. It's a drug, but an acceptable drug by society standards. There are so many kinds of energy drinks out there these days that it's amazing people still get affected by caffeine. Then there is the issue of caffeine and alcohol. Whoever came up with those 4Loko things was either a genius or a mad man. Since they were banned, I'm guessing mad man. I've never had one, but I hear it's crazy. Like people need more things to make them act weird or do stupid stuff when they are under the influence. Especially in MKE. I mean come on. But whatever. They sold, and probably would have continued to sell. Caffeine will always be an industry, and a lucrative one, as long as we the people are around. So next time you have that cup of coffee or steep that bag of tea, or if it's your style, grab for that Red Bull or Monster, really feel what it does to you. It may surprise you how crazy you really become.