Morning, you suck
I am not a morning person.
I prefer to wake up on my own time. If I'm allowed to get up when I want, it doesn't matter how early I'm awake so long as it's my own choice. On the other hand, it doesn't matter what time I have to be to work in the morning, whether it's 6:45 or 10:30. If I have no choice as to when I have to get up, any time is too early.
We leave our house for school at about 6:45 every morning. I stumble out of bed approximately one hour earlier. Our drive to school is fairly quiet, but occasionally we chat a bit. We get to school at about 6:50, whereupon I wander to my classroom, turn on the AC, greet the turtle and wander to the staff room with my coffee. Morning devotions are not my thing, really. The idea is fine, but generally the happy-clappy songs that involve lyrics like "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, keeps me singin' as I go!" make my non-morning brain want to shut down. We (the royal we) do not sing in the morning. We stare into our coffee mug through bleary eyes, trying to get used to the idea of being around people at such an ungodly hour so that we can function during morning homeroom and our first period classes.
This is always the case. It's widely accepted that Erin isn't fully awake during morning devotions...especially since I'm hardly the only non-morning person on staff. I'm in good company.
So WHY WHY WHY is it some people cannot deal with this? Most mornings I hurry to get a seat in the back corner. This usually means I can avoid happy morning huggy time with some of my weirder coworkers...okay, ONE of my weirder coworkers. This person isn't just a morning person, he's an ALL THE TIME HAPPY SKIPPY PEOPLE PERSON!!!! Except when he randomly yells at me in front of his and my students because I politely asked his students to keep it down a little because my students were complaining about the noise, but that's another story.
Anyway, this morning was no different. I sat in my usual seat. I had my usual cup of coffee. I listened and prayed along with devotions and paid attention to the best of my abilities during the following meeting. Then, when some people got up to split off into a different meeting, I was accosted.
"Have I done something to make you mad?" Ms. Morning Person demanded angrily.
"Huh? Wha? I...um..." my brain scrambled to make sense of this sudden attack and formulate some sort of answer. "No..." was my bewildered response.
"Well would it kill you to make some effort? It seems like you're sunshiny to everyone else except me in the mornings! I just don't know what your problem is with me!" Ms. MP snapped and then stormed off.
I just blinked a lot. What the...?
First of all, I am sunshiny to NO ONE in the morning. I think that, in general, "sunshiny" probably wouldn't describe me. This isn't to say that I'm a jerk or anything. I'm just not a kittens and rainbows and unicorns and pink fluffy bunnies kind of person...ESPECIALLY not in the morning.
Secondly, I had said a polite good morning to this person, along with everyone else I encountered. That's it. Perhaps I should skip more, or start leaving a trail of happy glitter everywhere I go. Truth be told, this person has a loooooooooooong track record of seeking out things to be personally offended by, then yelling at the alleged offenders for (really) no good reason. Seriously, it's kind of a no-win situation. I guess my number was up, it was my turn to get yelled at. But did it have to be before 8 a.m.?
Ack. Mornings. I just can't win with mornings.
I prefer to wake up on my own time. If I'm allowed to get up when I want, it doesn't matter how early I'm awake so long as it's my own choice. On the other hand, it doesn't matter what time I have to be to work in the morning, whether it's 6:45 or 10:30. If I have no choice as to when I have to get up, any time is too early.
We leave our house for school at about 6:45 every morning. I stumble out of bed approximately one hour earlier. Our drive to school is fairly quiet, but occasionally we chat a bit. We get to school at about 6:50, whereupon I wander to my classroom, turn on the AC, greet the turtle and wander to the staff room with my coffee. Morning devotions are not my thing, really. The idea is fine, but generally the happy-clappy songs that involve lyrics like "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, keeps me singin' as I go!" make my non-morning brain want to shut down. We (the royal we) do not sing in the morning. We stare into our coffee mug through bleary eyes, trying to get used to the idea of being around people at such an ungodly hour so that we can function during morning homeroom and our first period classes.
This is always the case. It's widely accepted that Erin isn't fully awake during morning devotions...especially since I'm hardly the only non-morning person on staff. I'm in good company.
So WHY WHY WHY is it some people cannot deal with this? Most mornings I hurry to get a seat in the back corner. This usually means I can avoid happy morning huggy time with some of my weirder coworkers...okay, ONE of my weirder coworkers. This person isn't just a morning person, he's an ALL THE TIME HAPPY SKIPPY PEOPLE PERSON!!!! Except when he randomly yells at me in front of his and my students because I politely asked his students to keep it down a little because my students were complaining about the noise, but that's another story.
Anyway, this morning was no different. I sat in my usual seat. I had my usual cup of coffee. I listened and prayed along with devotions and paid attention to the best of my abilities during the following meeting. Then, when some people got up to split off into a different meeting, I was accosted.
"Have I done something to make you mad?" Ms. Morning Person demanded angrily.
"Huh? Wha? I...um..." my brain scrambled to make sense of this sudden attack and formulate some sort of answer. "No..." was my bewildered response.
"Well would it kill you to make some effort? It seems like you're sunshiny to everyone else except me in the mornings! I just don't know what your problem is with me!" Ms. MP snapped and then stormed off.
I just blinked a lot. What the...?
First of all, I am sunshiny to NO ONE in the morning. I think that, in general, "sunshiny" probably wouldn't describe me. This isn't to say that I'm a jerk or anything. I'm just not a kittens and rainbows and unicorns and pink fluffy bunnies kind of person...ESPECIALLY not in the morning.
Secondly, I had said a polite good morning to this person, along with everyone else I encountered. That's it. Perhaps I should skip more, or start leaving a trail of happy glitter everywhere I go. Truth be told, this person has a loooooooooooong track record of seeking out things to be personally offended by, then yelling at the alleged offenders for (really) no good reason. Seriously, it's kind of a no-win situation. I guess my number was up, it was my turn to get yelled at. But did it have to be before 8 a.m.?
Ack. Mornings. I just can't win with mornings.
posted by Erin @ 7:51 PM
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