Ahh, what a little black tea can't do for the soul...

Ok, so, a lot. It has no redeeming power, it has no inherent truth, and its comforting grasp reaches only so far.... But, oh! A little loose leaf British Breakfast tea from The Republic of Tea brand does wonders in that "little touch" when eyelids are fixedly at half-mast and others can almost perceptively hear the whirring of your brain trying to function past the cobwebs that have comfortably lodged themselves among the folds of the gray matter.