What Makes Me High

A cup of coffee.

There are two kinds of drinks I never really liked in Japan but started to drink since I came to the US; beer and coffee. I never ordered either in Japan. But it seems to me that America is a country of beer, coffee, and movie (and bacon and freedom, I guess), so I decided to try those drinks. Beer is almost my favorite drink now, though depending on which kind.

But, coffee. I'm still not sure about this one, although I do enjoy ones with lots of milk and suger and sometimes whipped cream. Frappuccino has been always my favorite, and I often have cafe latte these days. I even started to talk about which cafe has good coffee. But not without milk and suger. What happens if I drink a cup of coffee without anything---I get high. I get excited and restless, my heart starts pounding, and I feel like I wanna talk to someone, anyone. It's a bit like when I get drunk. Or when I smoke weed, except I never have.

That's what happened to me today, before my afternoon class. I had a cup of French Vanilla, today's flavored coffee, at the Coffee Bean and it hit me. I was reading while I drank the coffee but then I noticed my heart beating faster than usual and I began feeling not at all like reading about rhetoric and composition so I talked on the phone and walked around on campus for a while till I decided to sit down and read again. Even then I felt a bit weird and it didn't stop in class either. Had I gone to class drunk, I might have felt more calm.

Never underestimate coffee. The drink has such a power.