Urgh.

That was dumb. I got through most of two glasses of Pepsi before I realized that, you know, this doesn't quite taste right and oh, you know, that might explain the headache.... To be fair to myself, I've been drinking mostly Coke for the past several days and initially attributed any off-ness to not having chilled the Pepsi all the way.

I finally checked for stickiness.

Diet.

I do not cope well with aspartame. It hurts. Sometimes I can tell the difference by taste and sometimes I can't; I only wish the diet stuff tasted as vile to me as it apparently does to some people. It would, literally, save me some headaches.

On the bright side, even though I took it with the second glass (yeah, I need a brain...) the acetaminophen is kicking in pretty well.

Clearly this is a sign that I need to cut back on soda. So, naturally, I followed up with a glass of chocolate milk.