I meant to pack my own tea, I really did. I arrived last night to discover, no, in fact I did not pack the tea. But what's that over there? It's an in-room coffee pot! Surely they will have a few tea bags along with the coffee packets.
Au contraire, mon frere. I tell myself coffee does not have more caffeine than tea. I tell myself this because I am sure I have read it somewhere. I tell myself this because, although it is only 7:00pm and I am pretty sure I passed a grocery store on the way in, I am in an unfamiliar city and it is dark out and I am scared. Or lazy. Take your pick.
I decide I will branch out from my usual routine and have coffee in the morning. How bad can it be? People drink coffee every day. Besides, I picked up a milk at the McDonalds drive-thru on the way down (you know, to have with my tea...my tea that I did not bring) so I can drip a little coffee into my morning milk and it will Be. Just. Fine.
But it wasn't just fine. Within the hour I was buzzing like a chain saw. Holy crap! I can't meet celebrities and producers and fellow journalists like this. Food. That's what I need. An early dinner combined with no breakfast plus a cup of coffee leads to bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I knew I should have used the decaf packet.
One trip to El Pollo Loco later and I am feeling much better. It was touch and go there for a while, though. When I sat down to eat my lunch, honest to god I thought we were having an earthquake. Or they were jackhammering the street. I wasn't shaking outwardly so much as my insides were quivering. It is the strangest sensation I have ever experienced.
How you people drink coffee every day is beyond me. And multiple cups of it! You must really get a lot done during the day.
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