h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Caffeine can be a two-headed beast!

I was hooked on iced tea and iced coffee for the better part of two years. I drank so much my heart began to develop a murmur (something the Army doctor wasn't too pleased about!) and eventually had to quit.

While I still love the rush, kicking the habit is a pretty intense thing to do! You get headaches and have difficulty sleeping. but when you're "clean" and start drinking it again....it's like falling in love all over again!

If you can do without for about two weeks, give it a try and you'll see what I mean!

Oh, and I look forward to whatever disease you can give me!

- Jimi X

caffeine withdrawal?

I'll try to catch as many diseases I can and give them all to you ...

The withdrawl is killer....

but well worth it when you get back on the coffee!

neat trick to play with your family or office members - 2 weeks of decaf and then mocca I did that once, my mother nearly killed me and even my grandma was hyped

That's just downright evil!

ain't it? I never said I was a good girl... and playing with peoples perceptions is at least a little bit nicer than playing with their minds or hearts...

incidentally - the time between this and your latest reply I spend on your page, drinking coffee

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I was sleeping (a concept you must have difficulties with)!
Did you see anything you liked on my home page? Feedback?? Please???

lots and lots and lots... still not seen it all I think...

No I don't have any trouble sleeping, but I try not to do it online

Work's calling again, so I can just offer you a cookie and promise the feedback for later, tomorrow at the latest, alright?
cu
k* < panting >

OK, sounds good....

But what was that term you used "W-O-R-K"???? Isn't that the place you go to write your h2g2 entries?

No. That was the place I drink most of my coffee while earning enough money to pay my telephone and internet access with...

Yuck! That doesn't sound like it's any fun at all!!

BTW, what are you rehearsing for?

I WAS (whew) rehearsing for the talk I have to give in 3 weeks, in Mallorca of all places - 4 weeks of stress for 8 minutes pseudo-fame...
and spare yourself the boredom you'll receive if you ask for the topic

You can't say something cryptic like that and not give details.....

Here, grab a cup of Joe....

*Passes a nice fresh one*
C(_)

....Do tell!

Thanks for the coffee *sluuuuurp*empty*smile content*
- you're into masochism?
Right, I studied biology and did my zoological thesis in the medical-anatomian part of the university, cause I wasn't really interested in the mating rituals of cockroaches or house flies at full moon...And I refused to do experiments with living animals. So I worked on the eyes of mice with an knockout of one enzyme, looking whether they get something similar to known human eye diseases. Disgusting, ain't it? Now you know how I spend my working days when not sitting in front of a computer...
looking deeply in the eyes
of tiny brown mice...

(oops, poetry by accident )

You DID ask... *sigh*

That doesn't sound too bad!

But remember I have been called a "boring fart" right here on h2g2!!

A girl I dated in college was a biology major and my best friend's wife works in a zoo so I have heard plenty about anmals and their various parts.

Personally, I prefer plants....they really get my xylem phloem! (tee, hee!)

I don't get it.

Don't get what, Technicolor?

get a coffee c(_).....

Have one too, Jimi - but I was never one for botany - I have the thumb from hell - one look at a plant and it'll wither. Apart from the tomatoes in my garden, they multiply, and I don't even like tomatoes all that much

Now I know, why I had to eat so many of the tomatoes *g*

Xylem & phloem are the vascular systems in trees that are similar to our blood vessels.

Sorry, it's an old biology joke from my university days!
- Jimi X

SO??

How was the talk??

Long time no see, eh?