November 12, 2006

How to Get Rid of Caffeine Withdrawal

In order to alleviate today's caffeine withdrawal-induced pounding in my head (I try to cut down my usual 3 cups per day habit to 0-1 on the weekends), I brewed some bo lei tea and hunkered down on my couch to watch some mindless entertainment. Yes, I know that tea contains more caffeine than coffee, so shut it.

The Sunday late afternoon crap on television was a little too mindless even for me, so I watched my Netflixed Vice Guide to Travel. I want to fit in one more trip before 2006 is over, but I don't think that I'll be heading to any of the places featured in the DVD (Chernobyl? Congo?). Whaddya know it -- the combo of sipping shotglass-sized cups of tea, gasping and laughing at the situations which the Vice correspondants get into worked!

Funniest segment in the Guide -- Gavin and David in China. Watching them tear-it-up in their Uncle Sam costumes with toilet paper beards in a Shanghai expat bar made me forget my pain. Reading this Amazon.com customer "review" added to to hilarity ("far ahead of its time. Uncompromising, unsentimental drama of this sort is not in vogue during an era that is better known for titles like Roll Bounce, ATL, and Snakes on a Plane").

Lesson learned: In order to cure caffeine withdrawal, drink more caffeine and watch a semi-mindlessly entertaining travel DVD. It works!

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