I'm not a morning person. Never have been, never will be. My friends and family back home know not to talk to me when I first wake up because, hello, I don't like waking up. Even if it's four in the afternoon. The point is, people usually don't talk to me when I first wake up because I have no control over how grumpy I am.
My roommate figured it out pretty quickly. If we happened to wake up at the same time, she knew I wasn't in a good mood, and she knew I was still half asleep after first waking up. I said and did some bitchy things. BECAUSE I HAD NO CONTROL OVER IT. I was still partially asleep, for crying out loud.
At first when she mentioned that I was a bitch when I first woke up, I agreed. I wasn't always mean, though. But when someone woke me up roughly or without caution, I tended to be meaner than usual. She was right about calling me out on it. No big deal. But then she kept on saying things, and more people joined in, even though they'd never actually seen me be mean. These people mean the world to me. They're my family when I'm over here. And they just jumped onto the bandwagon.
Nick thought I was asleep yesterday when he said I was like Medusa when I first woke up. If I looked at someone, they turned to stone. He joked that he wanted to wait in the room one day, and then run out screaming when I woke up.
I've always known Nick's an asshole, and I probably would have thought it was funny if he hadn't said it while he thought I was asleep. If he'd said it to my face, it might not have hurt as much as it did.
Last night, I started book four in a new series that Nick, Stepf, and I are reading. I started reading around 3:30 AM (everyone was up late because of the Relay for Life) and I didn't stop until about 6:30 because the book had me so wrapped up. I fell asleep around 7 and slept until 2:30 this afternoon. I woke up because Nick had come into the room to talk to Elisabeth.
All I did was turn over, smile, and wave at him. Nothing mean. Nothing bad.
He fake screamed and ran out of the room while Elisabeth laughed.
And I turned back over and cried for the better part of half an hour.
