July books: Still 4/6, alas
Afternoon, squiders. I haven’t had coffee in four days.
And you know what? It has changed absolutely nothing.
(I had some pain around my lower sternum, and I thought it was stomach pain, and I’ve run into issues with coffee before. But it turns out it is NOT my stomach. My sternum hurts. Maybe I ran into something.)
I’m immune to caffeine, so having coffee or not doesn’t make it easier or harder to get going for the day. I just like coffee.
Arguably, I am addicted to coffee (as we discussed in February of last year) (and since that post we’ve acquired a Nespresso which is Highly Dangerous). I like it, it’s comforting, and I associate it with writing even though more often than not these days I drink it while I am not writing.
I also associate it with writing with friends, although I have no more writing friends these days. I had a group I met with once a week up until my oldest was about one, and then I switched to a discussion group instead, but both of those groups are dead at this point.
It is hard to find people to just write with, these days. At least for me. I know there are some out there, but the times are never good. They all meet in the evenings or on the weekends, and I’ve got to do kid or family stuff in that time frame. Nobody wants to write at 1 pm on Mondays.
But seriously…I would have expected some withdrawal symptoms or something. I maybe had a headache on Tuesday, but, also, I’ve got a bit of a cold, so maybe it’s just related to that. No change in energy levels or anything.
At this point it’s a bit of experiment. Do I miss coffee? Absolutely. But it is not as much as an urge as I would have thought. Like, I’m not going through my day craving it.
I do think I will go to my favorite coffee shop tomorrow and get my favorite drink, which is called a Florentine. (I’ve done a web search, and there’s fifty million variations called a “Florentine,” but at my coffee shop it’s coffee with a bit of milk and chocolate syrup. So you get that chocolate fix without all the sugar/calories a mocha gives you.) See if there are negative aftereffects.
But it is good to know that if it came down to it, I could give up coffee.
How do you feel about coffee, squiders?
