Pounding The Keyboard

       Two guys ahead of me in a queue in a supermarket cashier were talking, and as I leaned towards to my cart in front of me, yawning, waiting for the line to move, I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on them. The topic basically was one of the guys had a girlfriend, whom he had yet to introduce to his family because he was afraid that his family would ridicule and belittle her choice of a girlfriend. They failed to discuss why his family would diss the girl, maybe she’s :      A.] ugly      B.] poor and uneducated      C.] single mom/had been married before      D.] transwoman/ladyboy      E.] an ex-con      I was thinking, while I grimaced watching the amount of my groceries rise up like a tsunami, if I had a girlfriend who was ugly, poor and uneducated, a single mom or a transwoman or an ex-con, my family would still be delighted and gladly welcome her, and would be relieved that a woman could still find me lovable. When was the last time I brought a girlfriend home to th

       Few weeks ago, I deduced that maybe, caffeine was part of my sleeping problem. While it’s true that caffeine makes you more alert and energetic and helps you focus on things, it is also a fact that a little too much of it makes you restless, anxious,   irritable, confused, and nervous. Caffeine also gives you headaches and increases your high blood pressure.      I am not a heavy coffee drinker, I only drink it in the morning at breakfast or when eating out (we usually have coffee after a dine out in a mall), but I drink sodas and eat chocolates, which are also loaded with caffeine.      So far, so good, I sleep a little better now, not that good yet, but better, so I probably will continue being sort of a teetotaler when it comes to caffeine. I probably have low tolerance to caffeine. So only decaf coffee for me now, and no sodas and no chocolates. I continue to drink green tea, it has much less caffeine than coffee or sodas, but I nonetheless decreased my intake, and I’m