Since the age of about five I've been drinking coffee. As a result of my regular and long-standing tradition of caffeine intake, the drug typically has virtually no effect on me, nor has it for many years. Recently, however, I've found myself prescribed one of the nastiest antibiotics around: Ciprofloxacin! One of the fun side-effects of this marvelously scary drug happens to be impaired ability to metabolize caffeine. For the first time in a long time, one cup of coffee has me absolutely WIRED. Combine the high-energy caffeine effect (which, thanks to the Cipro, is quite long lasting) with the dizzy, hazy effect of the Cipro itself and you have yourself one interesting mental state. A mental state that does not necessarily lend itself all too well to helping conduct a two-hour interview. Just saying.

~~ Alex Broadwin