Red Bull

So I think I've had Red Bull maybe 5 times total in my life. I guess the real caving in began when I started switching over from getting hot chocolates to getting mochas at Starbucks in Commons during freshman year. (Lattes, caramel macchiatos [sp??], cinnamon dolce lattes, and frappucinos have since followed.) Not that I didn't stay up crazy late working on homework and projects in high school, but somehow when I started doing that in college, I found I could no longer stay awake in classes the next day :P. And hence my new interest in coffee took on a new purposeful role, thanks to its caffeine... But anyway. Though John was kind of getting into Red Bull sophomore year, I shied away from it. I suppose I thought it was weird to consume this drink just for the caffeine effects...? Of course such effects were probably more often than not a major reason why I drank so much coffee, haha.

Anyhow, my first Red Bull was kind of on impulse. I'd gone to Savory to eat and hopefully cram tons of last-minute physics into my head before the final exam at 6pm. This didn't exactly happen, though I enticed Dan to come study with me by offering to buy him food haha. And I just kinda saw the Red Bull fridge thing there and got one. I'd tried it before, but still thought it tasted weird. Carbonated, not quite as sweet as soda, a taste rather unique and hard to put into words.

Well, soon after starting my internship, I discovered that Matt's daily caffeine source is Red Bull. (I think he's got one of those six-can mini fridge things in which to keep a stock of them.) One day early on he offered me one, and what can I say, I was tired (and even as of now I still don't know how to find my way to the Starbucks that is supposedly somewhere in the building complex), so I said, "Okay, ... this is my second Red Bull ever haha.." Since then, he has supplied me with a few more... Tuesday morning he walked in and said "Red Bull, anyone?" I think I just laughed and he handed me one. Today he didn't even ask - just placed it on my desk, lol. And now that I've had several, I think I am coming around on the taste...

One final comment:
Today as I was leaving work, I still had a third of a can or so left, so I figured I'd pour it into my water bottle and thus be able to recycle the can yet not waste what was left in it... Well, I poured it in, looked at it - in all its yellow carbonated-ness - for a few seconds, took a drink, looked again, laughed, and thought: "...Now I definitely understand why Red Bull comes in a can." (I ended up pouring it out after all, hahaha.)