I CRAVE THE FLAME — mourning-again-in-america: rustingbridges: ...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mourning-again-in-america
rustingbridges

ok I’m pretty confident I do not have a normal reaction to caffeine. there is a dosage / tolerance zone where I experience the classic physiological reaction but I am also the guy who can fall asleep by accident while drinking an energy drink around the time I normally go to bed

rustingbridges

people in the notes are like, “consider you might have ADHD!” babe, it ain’t a might

the interesting thing is that there are dosages and situations in which I have a classic reaction to caffeine! I am not 100% sure how to predict one or the other, altho I think a lot of this is just a matter of breaking a certain dosage threshold, with that dosage being very tolerance dependent

mourning-again-in-america

yeah, i usually drink 3 coffees a day, and i’ve found that i can maybe squeeze out an extra 4-6 hours of awakeness from an extra two cups, but i’m much less likely to get the sleepies in the middle of drinking the coffee if i’ve cut back before

rustingbridges

yeah for sure, when I was working nights the coffee machine was an important stop on my break routine. typically immediately preceding a short heads down possible nap

working nights wasn't that bad but working overtime nights with a long commute was