The crossbeam has gone out askew on the treddle

I'm sorry to give you the very sad news
That your dear old mother has gone
We buried her down at the church in Kilkelly
Your brothers and Brigid were there

I've been amazingly productive so far this vacation! Somebody should give me a cookie. I've vacuumed and cleaned the house, colourized my cut-out characters, started on a weird little Gorey-ish poem, and yesterday I signed up at NaNoWriMo.

That's right. Me. In a writing marathon. Commiting myself for an entire month. A bit scary, but I'm really geared - bet the Nano-veterans laugh scornfully seeing me, fresh-faced and naïve, thinking this will be fun. Spent a few hours of my insomnia yesterday plotting - first I thought I had no plot, then I couldn't choose between two, and eventually I discovered I could pair them. Heh.

So my only concern so far is that it would be pracitical to get high on caffeine; And since I don't drink coke, tea or coffee, it might get hard. So I thought I could try to experiement a bit - who knows, maybe my taste buds have matured the last few years. So now practically live, I'll take my first sip of coffee since -- well, it's been quite a number of years. S'here I go!

...

Yeeuurgh! That tastes like -- something laminated.

But wait, not everybody likes their coffee black - I'll add some milk and see what happens!

...

Eugh. Slightly better - now it's some slightly cooler laminated artifact.

The taste won't go away! Abort mission, Abort mission! Chokolate milk to the rescue!

Okay, coffee is a no-no. *Sigh* Maybe I should get high on sugar instead, but that does all kinds of weird hoo-ha to my concentration. But wait, cocoa has caffeine, doesn't it? I like cocoa! I can stay awake with cocoa! Success!

And thus concludes today's experiemt. Discuss.