My Happy Breakfast

Two maxims you’re probably tired of hearing:

Days are just so much better when you start them with breakfast.

Days are also so much better when you start them with a smile.

Well then, days are better squared when you start them with both! Introducing Happy Breakfast, the most pleasant way to get those facial muscles working. One of my goals for this quarter has been to eat more breakfast, particularly before my morning classes from 9 to 11. I was pretty good about it for the first few weeks, I would drink a hot cup of high caffeine tea (sometimes when the juice machine wasn’t gross and completely watered down, I would have OJ), and make myself a toasted sesame bagel with scrambled eggs and tomato. Our dining hall provides free New York Times, so if I was feeling anti-social I would grab a copy and let myself feel educated. Sometimes if I was bad, I would be doing my reading for Chinese lit class. No matter what, eating breakfast nice and slowly instantly increased my alertness and mood, which transferred the smile from those disgusting red dining hall plates and onto my face for the rest of the day.

However, for the past few weeks my sleep deprivation has usually resulted in me skipping my 9 am class and then falling asleep in my 10am class. Either that, or my growling stomach keeps my eyes fixated on the clock and completely prevents me from learning anything. At this rate, I might as well not have gone to class at all.

Although it is 3am right now, I promise myself that I will wake up in time to eat breakfast and make it to my 9 am class. And if I don’t keep my promise, then I promise an embarassing story to share next time.

Mood: 3 have been in a very bad mood recently, easily incited and quick to snap at others. I advise to stay out of my path,

Physical tiredness: 3 even though slept 11 hours last night and took a short nap today, oversleeping makes me feel groggy

Spiritual tiredness: 3 again, PT overspilling into ST so much so that I can’t distinguish the two