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[krazykitkat]

Thank you to everyone who helped explain the mid-term elections and term lengths to me. I have knowledge! Still weirded out by the two year Congress terms. While the initial reasons for it do sound perfectly reasonable, it seems like a bit of a waste of money, time and effort now.

Tax cheque arrived today, I calculated it to the cent. It's all going to my parents.

A cup of coffee at lunch makes me jittery for the rest of the afternoon. For breakfast I have a cup of instant coffee (milk-based). Doesn't do anything for me, doesn't even really wake me up. Had a cup of the same for lunch - because I've had the jitters a couple of times I made sure it was a flat teaspoon of the coffee. Jittery again this arvo. Yet I can drink coke no problems. It's a pain, every so often I like a cup of coffee for lunch. I must have very low tolerance levels.

My very first nephew/niece is due in 12 days. And I'll be meeting my honourary nephew for the first time soon, my best friend and hubby and bubby are coming out for Christmas (they live in Zurich). He'll be 5 months old, becoming his own little person.

I really have nothing worthwhile to say.

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[rfkfortheusa.livejournal.com]

instant coffee has a good deal less caffeine than brewed coffee, but it still has 2x-3x as much as coke.

if you wanted to build your tolerance, you could kick it up to a more caffeinated soda, like mountain dew (or even diet coke, for some reason, has 15mg more than regular coke).

some kinds of instant coffee also are lower in caffeine (but not decaf) than others, though it's often hard to tell from the packaging.

[yes, i know that you were not actually soliciting this asinine rambling about caffeine, but i'm passionate about my addiction.]

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think though that this is a recent problem. I seem to recall a few years ago regularly drinking coffee during the day (including brewed) with no problems.

[athena4lynn.livejournal.com]

You being an auntie in 12 days is certainly worthwhile! As is the visit of your best friend and her baby. That's going to be wonderful!

*hugs*

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

We're already drowning the poor kid in Australiana books. Just mailed off another package yesterday.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

And trying to decide whether I'll be Aunty Katie or Kate. I get called Kate all the time by family, but my grandparents were the main ones who called me Katie and I miss it.

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

actually, i quite like the 2 year terms - it means that anything they do in the House will be readily at the voters mind when they go to the polls and it means the reps are less likely to play party politics and more about satisfying their electorate - more governing from the bottom up.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

But I don't think that's how it works in reality. As the responders said to my previous post, most incumbents are pretty much entrenched. And since they spend their entire term raising money and campaigning for the next election, how much time do they really have for doing the job they're supposed to?

Still searching for the political system that actually does the job...