Crunch time has brought about a caffeine addiction of sorts.
I've been drinking coffee everyday for the past three days in an attempt to kept a semblance of wakefulness in order to get some work done before the deadlines (no, not Starbucks. I'm too poor to support drinking designer coffee everyday though I wish I could). Everything's coming together slowly but surely.
I don't know if it's a psychological thing to feel more awake when there's caffeine running through my veins or whether it actually keeps one awake like a drug worming its way into a body's system to leave an imprint there such that one cannot function without it and be totally dead to the world because I usually feel more tired after drinking caffeine thanks to burning off the adrenaline too quickly but I can actually get some work done in that short burst of energy and alertness.
Maybe that's why I've been feeling so tired lately; the cycle of drinking coffee, burning off the adrenaline and the consequence.
What I need is a good long sleep with set time to wake up or to be rudely awakended by the Japanese song I've set as my alarm on my phone (or my mother flipping off my blanket and switching off the fan). Just so sleep and drift on a peaceful plane of rest where there are no such things as work and deadlines and bitchy people and worry and the lack of money.
Rawr.
I think it's a waste of time.
Journey
Friday, 25 July 2008
The Addiction
Posted by Chloe at 9:30 am
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Shall I go into the details of how caffeine works? It's basically like this. You drink a cup of coffee. You get lots of caffeine into your bloodstream, and then into your brain. Due to its structure, caffeine resembles adenosine. Adenosine, when together with the adenosine receptors, basically causes us to sleep or feel sleepy. Caffeine, however, doesn't do that - it only resembles adenosine, so it can take up the receptors, but what it really is doing is inhibiting the adenosine from getting together with the receptors. Kind of like how carbon monoxide gets attached to our red blood cells. In any case, by attaching to the receptors, caffeine prevents us from falling asleep or feeling sleepy. However, this is in fact an enforced wakefulness. So you don't feel sleepy for now, but your body is still desperately in need of rest and so when you finally go to sleep, you will be really tired usually. For you (and myself), the effects last shorter than normal, possibly because a) you're too damn tired for the caffeine to even work properly, or b) well there are a lot of alternatives, but a) seems likelier. In any case, the conclusion is simple. Don't drink coffee unless you want to wonk up your biological clock permanently, which grows more likely with each cup of coffee you drink.
Unlike SG, by the way, everyone here drinks coffee (except perhaps myself). Everyday. Every class I go to at least 60% of the students will have a coffee from Starbucks, Tim Horton's, 7-11 or somewhere. It's a perpetually high nation, I swear.
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