5 unrelated but true things...

1. I made a kid cry in his piano lesson this week. Really, though, he needs to practice. Life lessons and shit.
2. My roommate and I thought there were mice in our walls for weeks. We figured out tonight the squeaking is just a tree branch that rubs against our window. Whew.
3. I think Fleet Foxes made the best album of the year. I was wavering, distracted by other worthy contenders. And then it got cold today and I listened to "Your Protector," "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song," "Ragged Wood," and "Blue Ridge Mountains." The whole damn thing is brilliant. They are incredible live. Harmonies that fit like a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Haunting lyrics ("Penniless and tired, with your hair grown long, I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong, Memory is a fickle siren song, I didn't understand"). And the beginning of "Your Protector" is reminiscent of Debussy (think Clair de lune). Need I say more?
4. I ate stale two-day-old homemade Ghirardelli chocolate brownies for lunch today. Gross. But also a little delicious. Except for the stale part. Whatevs.
5. I'm a little tipsy right now.

Night...