>> Perhaps I drank less tea on Monday. However, the "tea" that I drink
>> might more accurately be described as "warm milky sugar-syrup with trace
>> amounts of leaf tannins". Surely the amount of caffine it contains is
>> negligable. And besides, I tried drinking more and it had no effect. Nor
>> have I ever suffered tea withdrawal symtoms before.
> 
> Maybe the "tea" has become an essential part of your daily 
> anti-hypoglycaemia diet?

It's plausible I suppose. Still, sometimes in summer I go for weeks 
without drinking any tea at all, with no ill effects. (I switch to 
drinking fruit juice, rather like what I did yesterday.) So I still 
don't think that's the cause.

(I also may have exaggerated the amount of sugar in my tea. I did not, 
however, exaggerate the amount of *tea* in my tea!)

> Also note that "brain work" burns quite a lot of glucose. (Though I'm 
> not sure from your anecdotes whether your daily work does qualify as 
> "brain work" :-P)
> 
> Still just random guessing though.

Yeah, well, even when I'm laying in bed my brain never really switches 
off. I'm the kind of person who will go for a walk beside a beautiful 
lady, watch the ripples on its surface, and wonder what the transfer 
function of a 2D system with surface tension is, and whether it acts as 
a one-pole low-pass filter attenuating high frequencies, or what degree 
of dispersion it introduces. Seriously, there's something wrong with me...

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