I'm starting to wonder why I've had The Shins' "Chutes Too Narrow" in my CD player for the past year. No matter what new CDs I buy, I keep going back to it. When I'm not listening to it, my roommate is. I can't escape it, and I don't want to. The music is soothing. The lyrics make sense. It just works. But I have been on repeat for a year now. Nothing new makes sense to me, and even if it does, I just don't like it.
So what did I do? Well, I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago. Just like everyone else, all my exams and papers were crammed into one miserable week. I stayed drunk the week before just thinking about how bad the next week was going to be, and of course, it was horrible, worse than expected, which is clearly a direct result of my procrastination from the previous week.
My week of hell ended in Halloween, the greatest holiday of the year, and just like everyone else, I celebrated all damn weekend. That celebration faded into last week where I found myself staying up until 4 a.m. in the morning watching the polls, trying to argue with someone on the other side of the room whose face became more and more unrecognizable with each new glass of Beam. This week, it's right back to me having too much to wear on my sleeve -
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