Still coffee-free and loving it!

I still haven't had any coffee since I quit about 10 days ago, and I'm still feeling good. Have I also mentioned that I've been alternating between running and lifting weights every day for the past 3 weeks too? Yeah, well that's also making me feel incredible. So I dunno if it's the coffee or the working out or just the holy spirit in my ass, but who cares? It's good stuff.

Yesterday I had planned to hang out with a friend and play some guitar, until he called me later on saying that he couldn't make it. Three of us fellow med students are sort of forming a band because the other 2 guys are damn good musicians. Anyway, he told me that he didn't want to come over unless the 3rd guy was gonna play too. I know that a month ago I would've taken it as an insult. Like why wouldn't he just want to come hang out even if the other dude isn't there? But he told me he had a lot of studying to do and didn't want to play unless it was a legitimate rehearsal. I didn't take it as an insult, it didn't depress me or "hurt my feelings" or anything (I'm a douche, I know). In fact, I took it as an opportunity to do some transcribing. Remember when I said I would put up a new transcription once a week? Fuck!

Well, I think this one might be a bit more popular than my last one. I transcribed (and somewhat altered) the "You Have AIDS" barbershop quartet song from Family Guy. The original is not actually a capella. There's a band behind the singers, and technically there are 5 voices (the quartet plus Peter). But I just altered it to sound decent as an a capella barbershop quartet. I'll put it up in a few days. Music never seems to get scanned well. It always looks like an Amsler grid does to a diabetic.

OK, I'm done rambling.

Feeling good without caffeine

After thousands of years of drinking coffee, I think it's finally starting to dawn on me that it has a horribly negative impact on my mood. I feel like a puppy that everyone's given up hope of him ever understanding not to shit on the carpet. He just doesn't understand why he's always getting yelled at, and as an unrelated wisp of a spark in his desperately feeble consciousness, he needs to drop a log. To him it's as if you're trying to say there's a correlation between doing high kicks (a la David Lee Roth) and the Great Crush Train Crash of 1896. Until one day, somehow, a single neuron with the willpower of Thor finally synapses with a hot looking neuron he's been eyeing from across the Corpus Callosum, and Winkie begins to understand what all the yelling has been about. Now when he shits on the carpet he's just fucking with you.

Well, it's the same with me and caffeine. I know everyone goes through ups and downs, just like I do. I just never put together the seemingly unrelated events of coffee drinking and shitty-feeling. The reason is because of the lag time, I think. At the moment of ingestion, I feel great and bubbly. But the downer doesn't come until many hours later, maybe even the next day or two. So it might also be the effects of withdrawal, as opposed to the caffeine itself. If that's the case, then the only solution other than cutting out caffeine is to never stop drinking it. But that's no good. You never know when you might find yourself in a coffeless hamlet. So I've decided to experiment for a bit and see if it really is responsible for some of the downiest of downs I've experienced in my life.

The last time I drank coffee was about 6 days ago. Then I was mildly depressed for about 2 days after that, which is when I finally thought of the possible connection. So I haven't had any since then and I feel great. I know it doesn't mean anything yet, but at least it's not a negative result. I'll go another week or 2 without coffee, then I'll try drinking a little decaf to see if anything happens.

I wonder where Winky would shit if he drank coffee?