Half-caf rage

[elfs]

Today is Wednesday, the third day of my half-caf week. I was tempted to this by The False God of Coffee, in which Robin Barooah found that he performed better without it. I've been tempted to try going caffeine-free a lot, this seemed like a straightforward way of doing it. I even bought a BPA-free water bottle that I'm now carrying with me everywhere, to give me something to drink rather than a caffeinated beverage.

Yesterday, on the way home, I was feeling very run down. I'd had only a half-caf/half-decaf coffee with my breakfast and had been drinking water the rest of the day through. I even avoided the temptation of a "free" soda pop with my lunch.

Toward the end of my workday, one doomed by scheduling issues to drive through some of the very worst traffic Seattle has to offer, I started to feel... Sad. Angry. Frustrated. A lot of that has to do with the current assignment, which is going much more slowly than I'd hoped, bogged down in distracting performance issues and annoying bugfixes needed on a different, unrelated server which I've inherited, as well as vague requirements and a three-week remaining schedule to alpha release.

Traffic was nightmarish, but by the time I got home the rage I was feeling was more than that. It was a hate-filled viciousness that I don't associate with my character at all, something ugly and overwhelming.

A glass of iced tea made it go away.

Now, I don't know if it was getting out of the car, the caffeine, or the sugar that made me feel better-- probably a combination of all three. But it sure was unsettingling.

Comments

[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

Drugs is drugs, eh?

[latheos.livejournal.com]

In a related vein, when you do indulge in a soda, try to avoid what you can get from most machines. (We favour soda from Orca (http://www.orcabeverage.com/), most especially their Double Cola.)

Cutting out the high-fructose corn syrup not only helps me lose weight, but I've noticed I'm less cranky. I'd be happy to cut caffeine altogether were it not for the fact that it can help mitigate my migraines (I feel your pain, tabbifli).

Or...

[brandywilliams.livejournal.com]

...the psychic impact of the day. Everyone stuck in traffic yesterday felt rage, and also sadness that the weather is so cold and wet so late in the year. Hard not to pick up on it.