Cold meds make one feel floaty.

Today was a weird haze of cold med-induced disorientation. My words were vocal equivalents of keyboard smashes. I felt like I was floating down the school hallway and I think that I might have scared some of my friends with my general over medicatedness and disdain for everything. I was mildly freaking out while I hugged my binder for comfort and blurted about how I almost seriously thought for several seconds that I was invisible. Yeah. Don't take cold meds on an empty stomach. However, directly after that I wrote half a research essay about Bismarck in one class. I guess that IB has conditioned me so that I can write an essay come hell or high water.

We started singing Christmas songs in Madrigal/Jazz Choir today. Madrigal/Jazz Choir is basically an additional choir for people who really like choir and want to feel extra pro. Therefore, people are extra competent and I feel slightly bad about my musical ability. We started Carol of the Bells today and I got excited as I do when nifty choir music starts falling together. I will repeatedly sing "ding dong" and "da da ba dop" with the best of them. I will alto the heck out of this. 

I got my hair cut and I feel like a sexy beast. Or at least one with fairly well groomed, semi-tamable hair as opposed to the sporadically wavy/curly/frizzy/somewhat straight thing I sported during the summer. I actually had a fairly decent conversation with the hairdresser, which was something that never happens. I was mentally preparing myself for half an hour of silence, punctuated by the occasional slightly tense, halfhearted conversation starter that generally falls flat a minute later.

Now I'm painting my nails a ridiculous bright pink that won't match anything while listening to hipster music (finally, after months of peer pressure) and drinking green chai tea because it was on sale because I felt that I deserved a new type of tea after three days of a miserable cold where tea and cough drops were my main food groups.

I'm pretty convinced that tea solves or at least alleviates most problems. Colds, stress, insomnia, sadness, what have you. Tea just gives little moments of happiness no matter what is happening.
Love,
-J-