Revisiting Caffeine
* * * It's true, caffeine is a socially sanctioned addiction that is more pervasive than any other addiction. I've been reading through r/decaf and going through my own ups and downs when it comes to caffeine and /or coffee and my present presentiments about it. On the night before Christmas, I prayed to G-d to release me from the grasp of caffeine, and on Christmas, I spent my first day in a long time without caffeine. I didn't even drink decaf coffee that day. And I'm not even going to lie, I did not have a very tea day that day. I mean, I didn't even have tea! I think I pretty much spent the whole day lying on the couch in the room adjacent to the backyard door, with the sunlight streaming in through the plexiglass (?)--I think it's more like plexiplastic--door and with me lying on the brown couch alternating between consciousnesses. It wasn't my first time in recent memory doing this--sleeping all through the day, but I think it was my first time in...