Remember that online history class I mentioned? I've pretty much found an excuse to blow it off every single day since it started. Annnnd there are exactly eight days left until the midterm.
Keep in mind that there were only seventeen days in total before the midterm to begin with, but you'd think I'd have had the wherewithal to start studying a tad sooner.
Not that I haven't tried - but there's always something to distract me. My house is always noisy unless everyone's gone, and that rarely happens for more than an hour or two at a time. So I've started coffee-shop-hopping, even going to Starbucks (evil mega-conglomerate that it is) occasionally. This has proved slightly counterproductive, as most java joints have apparently made it their policy to hire almost solely from the ridiculously-attractive-college-aged-male demographic.
I've also been staying up rather late every night, so I've needed a strong dose of caffeine every morning to get rid of my headaches and jitters. On top of those factors, I just got a second Italian espresso maker, pretty much exclusively invite people to get coffee when I want to hang out, and several of my friends have jobs as baristas.
So now, as I'm feeling a little light-headed and wishing I hadn't accepted that free extra shot from Matt the Latte Boy, I've decided to start recording my daily caffeine intake.
10:00 am - Chai tea (not that significant, but it's still buzzed)
3:30 - Triple espresso
5:30 - Triple grande half-caff americano (they put two shots in a normal one, so by some weird math that I don't quite understand, I'm going to say a triple half-caff is equal to about 1.5 caffeinated shots)
Total shots: 4.5
so assuming a shot has about 77 mg of caffeine (which I know totally depends on the roast, blend, and extraction, but I'm going by *bux's nutrition guide), and the Chai has 47mg...
Total: 393.5 mg
*edit*
I knew I was doing something screwy with that math. I forgot that decaf espresso still has somewhere around 12 mg of caffeine per shot (bah. I get more of a buzz off of water.), so that's an extra 18 mg.
New Total: 411.5
Who knew love could be this caffeinated?
me
- Olivia
- Texas, United States
- My name is Olivia, and I enjoy alcohol. Ranked in a semi-arbitrary order - rye, bourbon, gin, bitters, wine, aromatic liqueurs, etc etc etc ad nauseum. I love craft cocktails with ingredients I've never heard of (becoming harder and harder to find), I like making my own ingredients - limoncello, home brewing beer and ginger beer, tinctures for a future epic bitters, infused spirits... I am a sucker for local ingredients - Texas is a big state, and even though it has some archaic prohibition-era liquor laws, the inhabitants of this great state make some delicious alcohols. Dislikes include Malibu rum, diet sodas, sweet wines, and hipsters (ironic?). As snobby as a drinker as I can afford to be.
No comments:
Post a Comment