Cream, no sugar, please

[flexagon]

I dropped from three cups of weak coffee per day to two last week, and it went fine and was probably a good thing to do. That hasn't changed the fact that I love coffee these days, in a much stronger way than I used to. When I'm stressed, and I wake up and my primary thought is that I can't possibly get through the workday cheerfully, I think "but I can have coffee!" and it actually perks me up. Starbucks is one of my favorite places to be... and coffee itself seems to upgrade life by about 3 experiential points. It can keep me from crying on a bad day, it can make me downright euphoric on a good day. What is with that? Am I unhealthily addicted? How can something legal be so good?

I went through a bunch of work-email tonight and my self-care bubble just completely popped. Oy. I'm getting tired of being up on the weekends and down on the weekdays... my boss, who was gone last week, will be there tomorrow, and frankly I don't want that to be such a downer. I wish things at work were different. I wonder if I can switch groups. Still, tomorrow should be exciting and fun just by virtue of it being the first day in our new space. There's going to be a champagne toast, and I'll finally get to bring in my Aeron chair, and... need I say it? There will be coffee.

Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

coffee=love.

I am kinda thinking its NOT coffee in the cup though, but something else. Porous skin on frogs allows them to be killed by applications of caffiene. Its used in Hawaii all the time to kill off the annoying coqui frogs.

[flexagon]

Yeah, I'm at least hoping it's not real coffee in the cup. Still a funny picture though. Probably the picture was taken with the caption already in mind.

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

The pic IS cute, and I too suffer from a unrequited love of coffee.

My french press is KING !

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

coffee coffee coffee mmmmm. i think it's time for a cup right now. the flu killed my appetite for coffee this winter and it's just now back on the upswing, but i have had many, many days of "ooh, i can have coffee!"

[flexagon]

Yeah, I hate coffee when I'm sick. It's so predictable that I take my tingly anticipation of coffee as a sign of good physical health, which may be taking the interpretation a bit too far. Still, there's something about it.