What the hell...
I do believe that I will never try another 5-hour energy shot again.
I was up from 10am on Sunday until 5am on Monday, slept for an hour, got back up, finished a project, and went to school to turn it in. Then I went to Walmart for approximately an hour, went home, watched a movie and took another catnap, upon the conclusion of which I was immediately required to return to school for a final exam.
Prior to leaving the house to attend the exam I consumed a single 5-hour energy shot, berry flavored, that I had been given by a cheerful young man who was handing them out in the courtyard in front of the business building that morning when I went to turn in my project. While awakened from my catnap exhausted to the point of speaking in LoLspeak (as I was informed by my sister), I was coherent enough to drive within fifteen minutes of taking the energy shot, and I believe that I performed reasonably well on the exam.
However, I would like to state for the record that a 5-hour energy shot, for my metabolism, lasts considerably longer than five hours and has a very strange side effect.
It is now a quarter to five on Tuesday morning. I have slept less than three hours since 10am on Sunday. I am physically exhausted to the point that my hands are shaking, my eyes refuse to focus, and I feel physically ill. My brain, however, seems to have moved completely THROUGH exhaustion and out the other side, and is currently operating at a speed that would most accurately be measured by the Mach system and with no discernible purpose.
I hesitate to take a sleeping pill, as those have frustrating side effects even on the best of days and mixing more chemicals into my already overloaded system seems highly inadvisable. I'm frustrated with lying in bed staring at the ceiling, my motor reflexes are too dulled by the physical exhaustion to manage video games, and even if they weren't, the blurring vision precludes computer games, reading and television viewing. It's fortunate that I need see neither the screen nor the keyboard to type, as I have sufficiently ingrained the muscle memory associated with keyboarding as to allow me to know, within a keystroke or two, when I have committed an error and what that error was.
It is also my observation that exhaustion of this level coupled with a kind of unfocused, high-speed mental operation seems very similar to a moderate level of alcohol intoxication.
I would suggest that this warning be placed on the label of the 5-hour energy shots, but the little bottles are so small and I believe I've now been typing for a solid seven minutes. Which makes it highly improbable that they could print the warning on the label in a sufficient size to be easily read.
I believe I will go stand out on the breezeway and watch the thunderstorm for a while.
I was up from 10am on Sunday until 5am on Monday, slept for an hour, got back up, finished a project, and went to school to turn it in. Then I went to Walmart for approximately an hour, went home, watched a movie and took another catnap, upon the conclusion of which I was immediately required to return to school for a final exam.
Prior to leaving the house to attend the exam I consumed a single 5-hour energy shot, berry flavored, that I had been given by a cheerful young man who was handing them out in the courtyard in front of the business building that morning when I went to turn in my project. While awakened from my catnap exhausted to the point of speaking in LoLspeak (as I was informed by my sister), I was coherent enough to drive within fifteen minutes of taking the energy shot, and I believe that I performed reasonably well on the exam.
However, I would like to state for the record that a 5-hour energy shot, for my metabolism, lasts considerably longer than five hours and has a very strange side effect.
It is now a quarter to five on Tuesday morning. I have slept less than three hours since 10am on Sunday. I am physically exhausted to the point that my hands are shaking, my eyes refuse to focus, and I feel physically ill. My brain, however, seems to have moved completely THROUGH exhaustion and out the other side, and is currently operating at a speed that would most accurately be measured by the Mach system and with no discernible purpose.
I hesitate to take a sleeping pill, as those have frustrating side effects even on the best of days and mixing more chemicals into my already overloaded system seems highly inadvisable. I'm frustrated with lying in bed staring at the ceiling, my motor reflexes are too dulled by the physical exhaustion to manage video games, and even if they weren't, the blurring vision precludes computer games, reading and television viewing. It's fortunate that I need see neither the screen nor the keyboard to type, as I have sufficiently ingrained the muscle memory associated with keyboarding as to allow me to know, within a keystroke or two, when I have committed an error and what that error was.
It is also my observation that exhaustion of this level coupled with a kind of unfocused, high-speed mental operation seems very similar to a moderate level of alcohol intoxication.
I would suggest that this warning be placed on the label of the 5-hour energy shots, but the little bottles are so small and I believe I've now been typing for a solid seven minutes. Which makes it highly improbable that they could print the warning on the label in a sufficient size to be easily read.
I believe I will go stand out on the breezeway and watch the thunderstorm for a while.