Green Tea

So I started this new job where I have to... um... wake up early. Yeah I know. I'm almost like a gown-up now. Well, they have coffee here, and a little coffee maker, and I have to wake up early. So I've been drinking a lot of coffee.

But then I found myself coming home at night and talking really fast and staying up until midnight and making Keithen say things like,"Thea. SHUT UP SO I CAN SLEEP," and using lots of run-on sentences and talking really fast and repeating myself a lot.

So I bought a little box of green tea to keep in my cubicle. It has all kinds of health benefits, and I figured it would have enough caffeine to ween me off coffee, but not too much to bring back the old talking fast problem. I go to the little place in the office where the UV-filtered water cooler is, press the little steamy mug button, get myself a nice steamy styrofoam cup o' hot water, and put my little green tea bag in it.

It doesn't really do the job. It does solve the problem of coffee-breath. Green-tea breath is much less offensive than coffee-breath. But it doesn't do the job the way coffee used to. I don't know what I'm going to do.

But I do like green tea. There are many kinds of green tea and the one I bought from Walgreens is really basic cheap Bigelow green tea. If you've never had green tea before, it tastes a little bit like a partly-cloudy spring day. All the new leaves are out, but only some of the flowers are starting to bloom.

Just in general: 9.9 out of ten. Green tea is full of anti-oxidants and it's delicious even when it's 99 cents for a giant box in Chinatown.

As a substitute for Coffee: 5 out of ten. There just has to be something with... more coffee in it. No - no, don't say the "D" word. Just don't say it.