as c. says, no more coffee

this morning, i decided to go get a soy hot chocolate with peppermint syrup. starbucks' is good, and jennifer garner and ben affleck seem to encourage me everyday to go drink the stuff. but i'm inclined to go to the neighborhood shop, eventhough they always over-soy my drink. it's all about supporting the little people, right? so i went, ordered, waited while the barrista filled another guy's order since he had to catch the bus that was 4 blocks away, grabbed my frothy looking beverage, and walked to work... and 15 later, took a sip. and i got a strange taste... like bitter, nutty coffee. coffee IS NOT hot chocolate. i don't drink coffee. ever. i had one long summer of dunkin' donuts coffee (couldn't help it- i worked 14 hours days and there was one on every corner in boston), and it did me in. i get twitchy and jittery and hyper and bad smelling breath and stuff. while it does help me concentrate, it's only for so long before i seem to be concentrating on too much and not on the project at hand. so here i had this warm, soy coffee drink w/peppermint syrup which i paid an arm and a leg for. of course i had to drink it. and now i feel like a mouse out to steal the cheese from some big, grey, furry, four-legged, pointed ear predator- i keep jumping at sounds, my hands are shaky, my heart is racing (thumpthumpthumpthump), and my brain feels like it's running (and i DON'T run) a mile a minute! must gather long, spindly tail between legs and run back to my hole in the wall...