04.03.06

A Bad Trip

Posted in Narratives at 22:37

Last night I had a bad caffeine trip. My roommate decided to make coffee. He doesn’t usually drink coffee, so he didn’t know the proportions. I told him two coffee measures makes a cup of coffee. He decided to make three cups for the two of us.

What I didn’t tell him was that by ‘a cup’ I meant 12oz. I told him this because when I make coffee for myself, I brew this amount for my oversized mug. In any case, I measured the water and he measured the coffee, so the proportions came out correctly, but we made four cups of coffee.

It didn’t occur to me that drinking half again as much coffee as I’m used to drinking in the morning at 23:00 was a bad idea. We sipped our coffee and watched (ironically) Lord of the Beans. It didn’t even occur to me to go to bed until almost 02:00. At 04:00, I decided to get out of bed and do jumping jacks and pushups to see if I could wear myself out enough to fall asleep. I did fall asleep, but this morning I woke up still wired. I decided to skip my morning cup.

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