An over enthusiastic "hey" to you.

So I have this problem. It is a very serious problem. When I pass someone on the way to class, or dinner or something and they wave... I tend to practically yell "hey!" 

Its a thing that needs to change. Because I get weird looks and I know its unnecessary but its like this compulsion and just kind of happens. 

I can't even do it justice in the video, its a level of intensity and excitement that can only be reached in those awkward encounters. Its like my mind goes "OH LOOK, YOU KNOW THEM! YOU ACTUALLY DO KNOW SOMEONE!" and then my mouth and voice team up and declare this to the entire campus.

And then I walk off and think about it. How it could have gone better if I hadn't responded like I believe the other person is both blind and deaf. I swear to myself that my next "hey" will be happy and calm, but no, it will always be uncomfortably over enthusiastic.

I'm doomed. 

A Construction Musical

This morning at 7 I was woken by a musical of beeping bulldozers, backhoes, and even a couple dump trucks. 

First it was just one. The one beep I've heard just about every morning at about 7 or 7:30. I wake up and think its an alarm clock like I do every morning. Half asleep I angrily, and ever so dramatically, roll over. Like that will make them feel sorry for me and the beeping will stop or something. 

This is the same lovely construction that no one can figure out what the heck it is they are hoping to achieve and has made them make our sidewalk tiny (the one that leads to the magical land of Starbucks). Its also what got screwed up and caused a gas leak that lead to evacuation of my dorm last semester. Apparently, its just never going to be finished.

Anyway, I'm laying there, cussing out the construction in my head and roll over. Right when I'm about to fall back asleep the next round chimes in. My eyes pop open as I cringe listening to the two different pitched things beeping. And they go on and on and on. And again I think I can adjust to this and suddenly there are two more. 

This is not a large area. The place where this construction is happening isn't that freaken wide. So now I'm laying there annoyed and not only trying to fall back asleep but also trying to figure out how on earth they have fit this many large construction vehicles into this tiny area and why they all seem to be backing up at once. It was like construction Tetris. 

So, in the end, my alarm went off before I fell back asleep. 

The beeping stopped about 5 minutes after my alarm. 

Dearest Winter,

To put it simply: I hate you.

While this may seem like a blunt way of putting my feelings out there about your cold, miserable ways let me explain. I'm sure you'll understand.

First of all your cold and dead. The only beauty you bring is when it snows, and that in itself is tricky. While yes, the snow is beautiful and capable of the gift of canceling class it is also cold, slippery, dangerous, and makes a total mess as it sluggishly melts away.

The only good thing about you is Christmas. I tried to think of more and really couldn't. 

Your siblings are about a thousand times better than you. I'm sorry but you know its true. Even fall is better and it brings allergies and leads to you coming back around. Spring is beautiful and brings back the heat and flowers. And as for Summer, well its awesome.It doesn't need a temperamental device to cancel classes, they just don't exist! 

If I were you, I would reconsider my ways. Soon, no one will like you anymore and do you really want that? Doing something as simple as eliminating the fierce wind or letting up on the snow would help. Or even not getting so dark so early, a lot of people are fond of daylight. Being big and bad isn't all its cracked up to be, you'll see.