Now that I'm working from home full-time, I've learned something about myself: I need a full cup of coffee before I sit down to work.
Which means I should really stop rolling out of bed five minutes before I'm expected to login and at the very least give myself half an hour to guzzle a small cup and feel human.
The fact that my first task of today is writing this piece about the wonders of coffee just adds to the irony.
You know, there was a time when I didn't need coffee to get started in the morning.
My continued inability wake up later than 8 AM or function after 6 PM makes that very clear, but as I get older, I definitely need a little help to cross the boundary between "awake" and "alert."
Is coffee a crutch? Duh, but it's a relatively benign, tasty crutch.
I usually only have a cup or cup-and-a-half before switching to water.
My theory as to why? At the office, there are only so many ways to procrastinate the doing of actual work. Coffee is an excuse to wander to the kitchen. At home, I have roughly a billion ways to procrastinate, so I only drink the amount of coffee I actually need and find other ways to avoid doing my job.
It's all about balance, right?
