All the Pretty Words

I’ve managed to go an entire week with no caffeine whatsoever! The headaches quit sometime around Monday, and although I’m still a bit sluggish, it’s a lot easier to deal with now. I’ve been rather tempted to open up just one more can a few times this week, but I didn’t. I have this one lonely can of Mountain Dew sitting in my fridge, patiently waiting for a month or two to go by so that I can see how just how nasty the stuff actually is (so say my friends who have quit).

I’ve been drinking massive quantities of water this past week, I’d say at least eight or nine largish glasses a day. I don’t drink bottled water unless there is no alternative, but today the water was out in the entire complex where I work and I had to run out to the gas station for something to drink. I landed on this one-liter bottle of Evian (which is horrid stuff, I feel like there’s a fine mineral coating all over my mouth) and drank the entire thing in about five hours. I’ve never had such a constantly high liquid intake before this week, so it’s all a little weird and new to me, but I guess there’s no such thing as drinking too much water.

I went back to Missouri for this last weekend, so during the week before that I tried to use up my perishable foods. I came back to Vermont, realized that I had only two cans of Mountain Dew left and decided to quit drinking it. I’m getting a bit too chubby around the middle for my taste, and of course pop has tons of sugar and empty calories and other junk in it.

My head hurts. A lot. I’ve had part of a 20 ounce bottle, a full 12 ounce can, and a glass of iced tea this week. That’s nowhere near my typical intake (most of a 20 ounce bottle and a 12 ounce can each day–iced tea is rare for me). I’m also extremely tired.

I’m probably more than a little crazy for deciding to do this during the last three weeks of the semester, but I know I have to do unpleasant things right when I decide to do them or I’ll find convenient excuses to not do them.

I’m not sure if this will carry on into a full-blown diet and/or excersize plan or not. I figure I’d better concentrate on surviving the massive caffeine and sugar crash and then think about the more distant future.

Vanlal tagged me with this meme, so it looks like I must submit to the demands of the meme. Here goes:

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.
My birthday is on the 17th of November.

Events:

1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.

Births:

1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)

1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director

Deaths:

1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)

Who am I tagging? Anyone who reads this.