| 18 January |
Morning Blows |
My truck doesn’t get the best of gas mileage, so it really bothers me when I have to drive to school, which is a ways from the house. Last semester my girlfriend and I had schedules that really worked out well, and we were able to car pool. I much rather driving the Saturn vs. my gas monster. Think of it this way her Saturn is more of a sandwich and chips, and my truck is more like an all you can eat buffet.
Anyway, today our schedules worked out so we could take the Saturn together. Her class was at 8:00 and mine not until 9:30. I also wanted to get to campus a little early, because I still didn’t have my books. Which by the way cost a little over $200 for three books. But that’s an entire other story. So we had to get up at 6:00 to be able to get through traffic and be there by 8:00. I’m not what you would call a morning person by any means. If it was up to me, the day would be shifted and wouldn’t start until at least 10:00 and end around 1:00AM. But since I don’t have the power, I just deal with it.
So the clock goes off at 6:00AM, not so bright and early. It’s a good thing she’s there, because I don’t even hear the alarm. I used to live one block from the tornado siren, and never heard that either. Good thing the house was never really hit, or I would have been really pissed to wake up flying through the air. But since I don’t here it, and I’m a heavy sleeper as it is she has to shake me and yell in my face. She’s the type that finds it necessary to use the most annoying high pitched morning voice. “Hey it’s time to get up” Man I hate that. On top of all that she gets to sleep for another 20 minutes, cause she waits for me to shower. It doesn’t bother me at the moment of typing this, but in the morning everything tends to bother me.
It’s funny how it seems that people seem to have a totally different frame of mind in the morning. Things that are usually day to day all the sudden seem like it’s the end of the world. I’m talking about the dumb things, like the cap to the toothpaste falls on the floor, or you miss and pee a little on the seat. I’ve also noticed how delusional we can be in the morning. During the day 5 minutes is nothing, and flies by. However, in the morning, all the sudden five more minutes is like gold. It’s as if we want to go back to flying around on the back of the pink hippo, and no that wasn’t my dream last night.
So we get ready, only to find that it was snowing, and during rush hour. Getting to the interstate was half the battle. Then the interstate was at a stand still, so we opted to take the longer route, thinking it would be fast and less traffic. We were horribly mistaken. It took us an hour to get to campus, and those that may be reading this from bigger cities probably don’t think that’s a big deal. That trip usually takes us about 15 minutes.
Aside from the morning I just had, any early morning usually sucks in it’s own right. Some days I don’t have class, so I go to work instead, which has it’s own annoyance. It’s not necessaraly work that sucks, it’s the people that are there. Not everyone, because a lot of them are just like me and despise the morning sun. I’m talking about those that are entirely too chipper. “Eh! top of the morning!” “Happy humpday!“ ”Okee Dokee” Who says that type of crap? Especially in the morning. There are fine lines between way too uppity and the rest of us. Again, especially in the morning. Leave me alone until at least 11:00. And if you are like that all day, just leave me alone.