Aventurina King

This week, I discovered the power of multi-vitamins. I had never realized that literally everyone I know takes a multi-vitamin in the morning. And there I was, huffing and puffing through the day, putting weight on the candy I ate to try staying awake, when all along, the answer was right in front of me. Or rather on my way to my yoga class: the vitamine shoppe (why oh why is it spelled like that?)

I started taking Alive!, one tablet a day. I can’t bring myself to swallow it whole, so I chew it into an acidic paste and then down it. And the effects are amazing, and even quite scary, to the point where my boyfriend asked me to check if there wasn’t cocaine on the label. Under the Alive! high, I spilt Tahini paste + its oil all over my macbook’s keyboard. I was squeeling with excitement trying to show my friend the contents of the Tahini jar over video skype. Five seconds later, I was standing over the sink with my computer held upside down, still chatting to my friend who was begging me to turn the computer off.

The end of the story was that despite being soaked in oil, my computer itself was fine (just as it had been when two weeks ago I spilt a whole glass of lemon juice on it). For a day or so, the keyboard was working even better than it had been, added the keys made a comfortable splushing sound. The day after, the keyboard clean stopped working. I got it repaired, the problem: there is an electric reaction beneath the key you hit, and oil being a non-conductor, if it gets inside the key, stops this reaction.