I'm working my way through the second pot of coffee and I'm starting to see shit. A message appears in chat then vanishes when I try to read it, and there's a trail flowing my fingertips as I write this. I need to be up for another 6 and a half hours.
It never used to be this hard to go without sleep. Next time I need to fix my schedule I'm using sleeping pills. For now I chug down half a pot of overpriced hippie coffee my brother got me for Christmas. The stuffs organic-fair trade.
The fair trade part doesn't bug me so much, if some poor assed third world farmer wants to earn three times what he did the year before I'm happy to give him an extra quarter on a 5 dollar bag of coffee, (I wish to god I was making that up; 2%, thats what the farmer sees of what you pay in the grocery store, US farmers don't get a better deal, just free government money).
What I do object to is doubling the price so the hippies can have it organic. Fuckers are cutting down the rain-forest to get the extra land for all that organic food too, hippies should know better.
Unfortunately instead of peace love and tree humping today's hippies have token anti bush bumper stickers from 6 years ago, a 'no on proposition 8' pin even though they didn't vote, and organic food. They can't even get pacifism wrong correctly, we haven't had a decent riot in this country since I was barely big enough to burn my hand on the stove.
Decent coffee though.
admit it, you're TTM's alt and were too tired to relog in!
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=19147.msg637068#new
Bah, if anything TTM is my alt.
No wait, I hate TTM, if I was TTM I'd have to shoot myself. Fuck that, there is no altery going on here.
:lol: I dunno, but I like where your stream of consciousness is taking you.
The part of my brain that says I should not hit post after typing certain things is being drowned out by my lizard brain, which cannot decide between sleep and running out into the woods to hunt down then eat and or fuck anything thats too slow.
My advice - fuck first - it helps to season the meat :evil:
Requiem, I am lovin the rift you have been on.
Try to keep it up even after you get some sleep.
FYI, organic coffee is often grown IN rainforests, because coffee trees require shade, especially in order to thrive without the use of chemicals. It's also hand-picked, and in many cases (such as Starbucks) the farmer gets about twice what they might have gotten selling to a traditional distributor.
Only one of the bags was shade grown, they mark that on the hippie bags. The cutting down forests for the extra land organic food takes is a generic problem though.
How you doing now? The phantom messages going away?
Last time I stayed up that long, I consumed a simialr amount of stimualnt, and ended up with delusions of grandeur, thinking I was the angel Raziel for most of the day.
I envy you delusional fucks.
When I stay up too long and drink too much coffee, I just turn into a cranky son-of-a-bitch.
You need to put the fun back into it. If something horrible has kept you up all night, you have an iron clad excuse to bring (more) aberant weirdness to the office.
During the incident in question, I explained the roomate's out of control party that I broke up, and got instant sympathy despite the promises of holy wrath and rants about the book of secrets I had made.
Quote from: Richter on January 07, 2009, 03:04:04 PM
How you doing now? The phantom messages going away?
Last time I stayed up that long, I consumed a simialr amount of stimualnt, and ended up with delusions of grandeur, thinking I was the angel Raziel for most of the day.
An extra half pot of coffee killed the phantom messages, though not the trailing streaks behind moving objects. I've slept since then though.
That's good. You may find yourself off base for a day or so until your sleep goes back to a more normal cycle.
Nah, I stayed up so long to get my sleep into a normal spot. I wasn't able to get to bed before around 6 AM for a while. Given that I woke up at that time today, it should fix things, at least for now.
Quote from: Requiem on January 07, 2009, 01:10:32 PM
Only one of the bags was shade grown, they mark that on the hippie bags. The cutting down forests for the extra land organic food takes is a generic problem though.
It is a problem overall, but organic coffee is one of the least problematic crops in that respect.
And not all shade-grown coffee is marked.
I worked at a roaster for 5 years, we tried to buy farm-direct whenever possible, and NONE of our coffee was marked shade-grown or rainforest-friendly, even though almost all of it was. For that matter, almost none of it was marked organic, because although the farmers we were buying from didn't use pesticides, they couldn't afford to get certified. We had ONE certified organic Guatemalan.
I wasn't a coffee specialist, although in my last year there they started bringing me into tastings and being part of the buying group. I was a tea and spice maven. :)
Quote from: Requiem on January 07, 2009, 05:59:35 PM
Nah, I stayed up so long to get my sleep into a normal spot. I wasn't able to get to bed before around 6 AM for a while. Given that I woke up at that time today, it should fix things, at least for now.
I just realized I cursed myself right here. Part 4 is upcoming, maybe.