Office Survival (No. 1)

I started my current job about 10 months ago. One of the most important things about starting a new job is being nice to everyone for a while, so you can figure out who are going to be your work-friends (if any) and who it is you need to avoid. This is an undertaking for me, because I'm a shy person, who speaks quietly when I'm uncomfortable or don't know people.
So, the first time I said hello to one attorney I work with, and she didn't say anything back, I thought it was because I'd spoken too quietly and she hadn't heard me. This meant I'd have to do better next time. I'd have to smile and look at her more directly and I would have to speak with a little more confidence.
She's a busy person who does a lot of traveling, so my next opportunity to say 'howdy' came a couple weeks later. I saw her coming around the corner, I inhaled, smiled and unleashed a "Hi" that was chipper without being saccharine. You see, I've worked in offices for over 7 years now, and if there's one skill that should be valued over all else, it's the morning, "hi". It's crucial. You have to say it with some vigor, but without overselling it, so that whoever you're unleashing it on doesn't think it's cool to come to your cube and talk to you about how their personal life is. You have to be friendly without being available. The perfect office greeting says I acknowledge your existence, even if I want very little to do with it. And I don't want to toot my own horn, but what I had just performed was the perfect office "hi."
Her reaction? She looked at the ground and walked by me without a hi, a wave or anything. What happened was more of a shudder. It was like I was trying to talk to a high school cheerleader and she couldn't bear the social consequences of being seen near me. I figured she was having a bad day. Attorneys are always expressing their bad days in socially awkward or rude ways. It's part of the excitement of working around them so much.
Well, the next time I showed off my perfect command of office etiquette, her reaction was worse. She forcibly rolled her eyes, though at no time during the rotation did they come close to acknowledging me. And the look of anger she made. I think she would've stabbed me if she could think of doing it in a way that didn't acknowledge I was alive.
At first I was pretty pissed that she should think she's just too good to talk to the lowly File Clerk (or whatever my title really is...but that's a whole different thing). But. It's pretty amusing that anytime I say hi to her, she's going to play high school on me.
Imagine, having to cope with the office environment like that. I almost pity her and want to teach her how to survive. But as it is, she can just expect plenty of "hi"s coming her way.