coffee

Everything becomes agitated; ideas are set in motion like army battalions on the battlefields, and then the battle begins. Memories charge forward, banners flying; the light cavalry of comparisons progresses at a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic hastens into the fray with its cannons and cartridge....

-- Balzac

I haven't figured out coffee yet.

I never had a taste at all for the stuff until one day in Ireland (2002 - November mos'likely?) when I downed 8 or 9 cappucinos in the last 45 minutes of the workday. The bulletproof buzz walking through streets and feeling the -- do! do! city-action, nature alive and people zig-zagging about -- hooked me, and the stuff coarsed through me for the next month or two, til I broke the habit at the end of my trip.

With brewing machines at home and at work now, I've been drinking the stuff on and off for the last few months. Mostly on. So easy to get yanked into the rushabout frenetic ideaflurry that moves my surrounding world like a machine, makes every crumpled up paper go straight into the basket, and loves checking things off of the to-do list. A cup or two too many, though, and words rush out my mouth before I've put them in the right order, and I get nervous, shaky and lose grip on flowsmoothness.

Lately, though, I'm beginning to find tea a better choice on weekdays. Coffee seems to solidify possible stresses at work. Come Friday when pressures recede, joe charges the weekends with electric relaxation.

Striving for the very edge of the untipped balance in everything...

Jeff, Welcome to wonderful fancy land of the caffeine freak. I, as the self-appointed Java greeter, will happily guide you through the levels of wide-eyed, sleep-deprived addiction on the behalf of King Coffee, George of Paineville. If you are stalworth in your cravings, perhaps someday you will join the elite royalty of self roasters and purchase your green beans of elixer from a popular local journalist with filial connections in Guatamala.

(ignore the comment from the last post)

-- steveg (January 26, 2004 10:09 PM)