I used to drink a lot of soft drinks. It started out innocently.
A Diet Pepsi here. Coca-Cola there. One at the beginning of the shift to get going. After some time, I was up to 2 or 3 per shift.
Then I moved up to the hard stuff. Diet Pepsi Max. Red Bull. I never quite made it to Monster Energy Drink or Cocaine (33 mg of caffeine per ounce) like some of the night shift zombies. However, I started to ask myself the CAGE questions and realized I had a problem. So I stopped.
I've moved on to a more mellow and elegant drink. Tea. Specifically green tea. In fact, I'm kind of a tea geek. I can talk infusion, oxidation and fermentation with the least knowledgeable tea connoisseurs.
In ditching the high caffeine crutch of soft drinks and coffee I've found that I paradoxically have more energy and think more clearly. I feel more rested.
In the fog of my theanine-induced grandeur, I have a request.
I leave the teapot at work.
Don't use it as a neti pot.
It's not there to flush nasal passages with saline.
It's there to steep tea.
