The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Blackrat]

Yeah, they have the same amount of caffeine in one pill as there is in two cups of coffee. They are sold in pharmacies recipe-free here in finland. One of my friends stayed awake by the power of caffeine for 1.5 weeks when he had to study for a big exam. After that he slept almost two days in one go and missed the exam .

 

[Horacio]

I'm sure such a wonder product wouldn't be sold recipe-free here...

Anyways, caffeine is only half of coffee pleasure, sipping a hot coffee is way more satisfying than taking a pill

Have you tried adding a drop of milk to your coffee? It makes it softer for your stomach...

 

[Blackrat]

Yeah you're right. There is something immensively enjoyable in sipping steaming hot coffee.
Hmm. I actually have always drank my coffee black without even sugar. Somewhere in my past I tried drinking latte but it just tasted wrong. Maybe my taste has matured since, need to try that.

 

[Horacio]

For me the only drink that can compare to coffee in sipping pleasure is tea. Sipping a hot steaming tea (no sugar, please!) is a very enjoyable sensation... but I still prefer coffee

But right now, I would almost kill for a very bastard drink : a Starbucks' cold frappucino. I love it, but there are no Starbucks in BRest (and almost none in whole France).

 

[Blackrat]

Wouldn't know, we don't have Starbucks here in finland so I haven't been cursed with whatever they sell . Yeah, tea is good but it lacks the punch in coffee.

Oh man, four more hours of work. I almost got used to those 8 hour days but now I'm back on these long shifts.

 

[Horacio]

How longs are your shifts ?

I will finish by 18h15, so still four hours more to me too. But for you, 4 hours more must be late (right now it's 15h15 over there, or 16h15?)

 

[Blackrat]

12 hour shifts. It's 15:20 here and I end 20:00 so it's actually closer to 5 hours still. Darn, I counted wrong and now I'm even more bogged.

EDIT: Bogged? I think I just made that word up . Does it mean anything?

EDIT2: Searhed a definition. Apparently it means being sunk in a bog. Well that works in the context.

 

[Horacio]

12 hours shifts, that's nasty!
If I can ask, how that it work? You have two 12-hours-shift days and a resting day?

I understood the general sense of bogged, even if I didn't know what it meant

 

[Blackrat]

Mostly I have three work days and four day weekend, then four workdays and three day weekend. Rince and repeat. The long weekends are nice even if workdays are long .

 

[Horacio]

I couldn't take a job like that (being a single dad, I need to get home soon). But I guess that biologically I could enjoy such a schedule.