"How Thoughtful"

I hate talking to people in the morning. Unless it is a I've slept on your couch and was expecting it sort of situation. If I am in my own element, my room, my apartment or whatever the morning is my time to sort of gear up for the day. I would almost consider myself a morning person, I can be cheery and bright and lovely at 6am, in fact it is more likely than if I tumble out of bed at noon. However, I need to have my routine. I like to be able to take my time getting ready, do my makeup, listen to whatever song I want, even if it is just Mika's Love Today on repeat for half an hour. When that routine is thrown off, I get grumpy. It doesn't matter what side of the bed I wake up on, before I've gotten ready and had breakfast/coffee/tea my mood is liable to switch at any second. I woke up today feeling alright, not really well rested as I tossed and turned most of the night, but determined to have a good day. Almost every day I have gone downstairs and gotten my breakfast to go so I don't have to make small talk with people. 8:30 am is too early for small talk, don't you agree? Anyways so today I sat down with these two girls I know, and there was this other girl I don't. I'm not sure if it was exacerbated by her accent, but every word out of her mouth dripped with pretension and the idea that she was superior to me in some way. I made some comment about how I was excited for my trip to Cork so that I would get to see a little more of Ireland, as Dublin wasn't really as foreign as I was expecting. She questioned me and I said merely that the differences just weren't as significant as I was expecting and especially being 25 minutes away from the city center and stuck on campus many days. I got a strange look and then "what club did you go to for the create on your wrist?" (thinking it was a stamp) and I said, 'oh no, its a tattoo' to which she rightfully asked what the meaning was. I said they had much more elaborate backstories but the short of it was reminders to be creative in everything you do and make the world more beautiful in any way you can, and to go with the flow, take a moment, breathe and then live life the best you can with what you have. To which she replied with a sort of hmmph sound and what came off to me as a sarcastic "how thoughtful". Then after asking what year I was in school, I said I was sad to be a third year as that means I have to go into the real world in a year, and she was like, "oh, it's not that bad, I've taught english in Hong Kong for the last two years". Like I said, nothing she said was particularly rude but the way she said it was very much a tone that said I do not take you seriously, you hippie tattooed fool.  Maybe she meant well, but at 8:30 in the morning, I don't need that nonsense.

Here is the Mika song, if you've never heard it I suggest you give it a listen. Great song to get you pumped up for the day!