Caffeine and Heroin

Heroin is in the news since Phillip Seymour Hoffman, beloved actor, died of an overdose.

People magazine (the current issue with the super-skinny winner of the Biggest Loser on the cover) has an article about heroin.

It says that heroin has become wildly popular right now because many prescription drug addicts are switching to it because it’s “cheaper and easier to get”

Corey Feldman (deceased from heroin) said (or maybe it was his father) that especially in Hollywood it is super easy to get.

“All I do is roll down my window and ask and five guys come over to the car”

I can almost understand why people may get into heroin.

Only because of how I use caffeine.

We’re ridiculously short-staffed here at work in the Customer Service department.

They laid off one guy due to budget considerations, and another left to go to university, and they decided not to replace her.

So we’re in a mad rush every day, constant phone calls interrupting our other duties of responding to various e-mails in different in-boxes.

Last week we had an additional person out most days (sickness; family medical emergency) so it was extra ridiculous.

Fortunately executives answered the call and logged in to the phone loops and answered e-mails and really helped out.

All week long I was on caffeine. Multiple cups of coffee.

On the weekend, sickened of my addiction and the acidic feeling I had in my body, I said "no-- I'm quitting"

So I stopped drinking coffee, and didn't have any this week.

Until this morning.

When I saw the e-mail that another person would be out today, I cursed audibly and said "it's gonna be a hell of a day".

Marching straight to the break room I got me a tall container of coffee.

Back on coffee today.

It's like riding a rocket that's going who knows where. The day is fast. The pace is frantic. The frustration pops up but then... when the caffeine kicks in... it's like "who cares! let's dance. Let's be high."

Venting... thank you, universal vacuum, for listening.

ps. so back to the point, which is about heroin: I hope that I NEVER even try heroin. There must be an appeal, for people to introduce it to their friends, and then they get "on" it. A favorite music star, jazz singer Anita O'Day was on heroin. She had to go far away to Hawaii and just lay on the beach all day long to get through the withdrawal. The people magazine says that quitting heroin "feels like death".