Coffee Project: Day 137
January 4th, 2010
For the last two months I’ve held to a strict schedule of drinking coffee every other day. I can’t decide if this represents a laudable achievement of self-discipline or just a new format for an old habit. Probably both. But I’m definitely in a way better place than when I started this Project.
My new schedule feels like a good compromise. I’m not suffering the stomach cramps, jitters, headaches, paranoia or snippyness that coffee was giving me before, yet I’m still able to seize the motivational and mood-amplifying effects. And that’s good, because I’m chronically unable to motivate myself otherwise.
On the other hand, the difference between my coffee days and my non-coffee days is dramatic; two months ago it was worse. I have to plan my life around it a bit. Coffee is for writing, correspondence and planning. Without coffee, I’m better off doing chores and reading. I probably should add or drop a day so that I always have coffee on Mondays. But Mondays are Mondays, so here I am blogging without coffee — my apologies.
As as my resistance to caffeine returns, other factors come into play to determine my mental and physical state: the weather, sleep, what’s on my mind or my schedule, et cetera. I guess that is what “normal” feels like. I guess normal is still novel to me. I like it.
This may be my last post on this topic. It’s charming how many friends ask me “how’s the coffee treating you?” when I see them lately. Thanks for all your concern. I definitely am feeling much better.