I went to Starbucks today to work from there… just to get out of the house and hopefully pull out of this funk that waiting has put me in. I had reasonable goals for my work output today, and I even took my craft supplies in case I needed a break or even finished early. Since traffic becomes impossible from 3-7, there was a chance of being stranded for a few hours, so I was prepared.

I’m aware that I’m not as productive when I work from Starbucks, but I figured it’d be alright.

What I failed to factor in is that I’ve barely consumed caffeine in the last month. I failed to consider the fact that the last time I DID have caffeine, I was up til 4am. I went ahead and ordered a chai latte.

Starbucks is always a bit distracting. People, ringing cell phones, movement, cold. But on a heavy caffeine dose, my focus is shattered. It’s the equivalent of injecting me with a gene for ADD.

It didn’t improve my funk, except for a brief period of time when I was rather amusing in conversation with my friends online (if I do say so myself). I’m more afraid of the sugar crash than anything else now.

But I came home and worked out – did the full 42 minutes of DWTS on the elliptical, because Starbucks = massive empty calories – and that did leave me a bit better off. I did manage to write a fairly solid first page today, so although I didn’t achieve half of what I’d hoped, I wasn’t entirely unproductive. Soccer is tonight, a late evening game, so I’m hoping the caffeine carries me through – but since I finished drinking the caffeine by 11AM, I’m praying the effects wear off before bedtime.

 

11:30PM Update: Soccer was AWESOME and although I was crashing before the game, the cold air woke me up – that and all the cheering (I asked my nephew tonight if they can really hear us – we’ve often wondered from the sidelines. He replied “Yes!”) So I came home from soccer more awake and up than I’ve felt in days…. and have been having energy highs and crashes since then. Going to attempt to go to sleep now and praying I’m not up til 4AM!