{"id":5645,"date":"2014-11-02T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2014-11-02T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:34:42","slug":"that-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2014\/11\/02\/that-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something about the sun going down so early \u00e2\u20ac\u201c around this time of the year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that makes all the pressures of unfinished assignments all the more feverish. This eventuality of shorter days never crosses my mind until I finally notice that I have already fallen into a tired and somber attitude.
\nHow easy it is to be ignorantly believing that everything is together and then quickly disintegrating into blah blah attitudes that bear no weight to anything, and in that absence of anything concrete, how disparate everything can be should you not tie each task, emotion, or thought with something that has weight and a semblance of togetherness.
\nBy no means am I saying I sit with hopeless emptiness on my couch in my apartment as I write this blog post. No, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t meant to sound depressing at all. The only reason why I remain happy is because I have to be. Also, listening to Feist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mushaboom helps a lot, but not really at the same time. Sometimes, if the moment is just not right, a song as happy as that makes me more tired and sad than I was before.
\nAnother thing that helps, is writing, as much as I can. And when I am not typing or writing longhand on sheets of paper that I find strewn across my desk or in my little black notebook, I am thinking about writing. However, more broadly speaking, I keep thinking about English as an art form.
\nI guess what I am trying to say, is that keeping my mind occupied is a greater force to fend off the lulls of energy during this time of the year in comparison to delusional fantasies of happiness that are brought on by listening to Mushaboom.
\nIn fear of this article becoming needlessly and annoyingly pretentious, because I am sincerely lacking material today for this blog post, I will cut this article short. I would rather not blab on about nonsense. For God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake, parts of this post are already nonsense.
\nMaybe I should just switch up my song choice, because I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be thinking about writing all the time, I got other stuff on my mind too.
\nMaybe I will listen to the It Ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Me Baby or some song by Haim or maybe\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6oh oh! I got it! Changes by Bowie.
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