Rant about Caffeine

So today, I got a box of those drink mix packets that you can add to water. Pretty normal, I guess.  It wasn't until I reached the checkout that I realized that they had CAFFEINE in them.  Caffeine.  In powdered drink mix. 

I know all about the power of caffeine.  It's in everything, really.  Chocolate, of course; coffee and tea (obviously), and apparently diet A&W as well.  In fact, it's really difficult to find a soda that actually doesn't have some form of caffeine in it (besides fruit-flavored sodas, really).  And I mean, I really do like caffeine, especially since I go to bed late and roll out of bed for my morning classes.  But I also wish that they told you how much caffeine was in each cup/serving/piece of food, and at what level that would affect you. 

For example, the other day I had a medium-sized coffee drink from Starbucks before class.  After class, I had a diet soda.  A little while afterwards, I was talking to a friend and my hands were shaking.  I was also talking amillionmilesaminutewithnobreaksinbetween, and well, the fact that I was talking fast might have had something to do with the fact that I'd had a crap day and was pretty upset (I got rejected for a job that I'd applied for from the group interview, plus just overwhelmingness), but still.  I wish I knew how much caffeine I could safely drink without becoming like I did that night - going into danger mode.  As for tea, I usually try to drink the herbal/fruity teas that don't have caffeine in them - I like them better anyway for the most part.

Anyway, that's something to talk about.  I've mostly just done a lot of homework today (Plato and Aristotle for my Lit Theory class; Latin translations; looking at a physics practice exam...) I'll try and find something to talk about tomorrow too.

Anyone ever played...

Telephone pictionary?  It's wonderful fun.  Tonight I went to someone's house and had dinner, and afterwards someone had the idea to play it.  Basically you write a sentence on a piece of paper and you pass it to the next person.  They try to draw it in only a minute, and then the next person has to write a sentence of what they think it is.  And so on and so forth, until you run out of people.

I started off with "A cat sat on the bearded man's hat" and ended with "Jeff was electrocuted to death while riding a dog." It was hilarious.  And one of my friends was perturbed when I wrote this sentence for her to draw: "Some people on a ship killed a mermaid and put her on a lifeboat out to sea."  It seriously looked like that, no joking.

That's all I have for tonight. I've been bad with being regular with posts, I know.  But I'm going to find things to write about/time to write about them...I will! :)

A Poem, and First Postcard

I've written a poem about a time that I ran over a rabbit when I was around 17.  I'll post it here because I can, I guess.

I felt the rabbit under the tire

after I saw it dart across the road.

I felt the rabbit under the tire

brown fur suddenly acquiesced

rust-colored stains and

asphalt marks.

bump, flat, now stuck

to the road.

tears were a flood

hysterical, crazy laughter

because I could not believe

what I had just done.

the teacher said that I could

pull over, to take a breath,

but once you are in the mode

of flowing, it's hard to stop.

I felt the rabbit under the tire.

I felt the rabbit under the tire.

And I drove on.

I think it needs a little work, maybe, but I'll take a look at it later.

 

Also, I got my first Postcrossing card the other day, from the Netherlands!  They even used one of the fancy Postcrossing stamps they have over there.  Here's a picture of it. :)